The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
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Security concerns sometimes justify some limits on freedom.
True Patriotism, it seems to me, is based on tolerance and a large measure of humility.
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