The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Liberty is undermined if achieved through the destruction of its future beneficiaries.
- In plain terms
- Freedom is a joke if you destroy the people who are supposed to enjoy it.
- What can you take from it?
- Protect people while fighting for freedom.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can freedom be won without harming others?
- What costs are too high for liberty?
Another view
History shows some liberties required conflict to achieve.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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