"The lesson of the paradox is that freedom is a rare achievement and thus essentially—and properly—human freedom is always insecure. no individual and no nation can ever be entirely secure and danger proof. Freedom, like life, is vulnerable. It depends on the fire of freedom being passed on from heart to heart and generation to generation and with eternal vigilance."
Os Guinness, The Magna Charta of Humanity, InterVarsity Press, PO Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 6515-1426, 2021, p.127.
