Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
Interpretation
Freedom can be lost through inaction as well as intentional harm.
This quote highlights the importance of being vigilant in protecting freedom. It emphasizes that neglecting to safeguard liberties can be as harmful as actively opposing them, suggesting that passive complacency can lead to the erosion of our rights and freedoms.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about civil rights.
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."
Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it and protect it and then hand it to them, so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.
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