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Quote from Henry Steele Commager,


"Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in
when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment;
it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it
we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment."


By:

Henry Steele Commager (more quotes by Henry Steele Commager or books by/about Henry Steele Commager)


(1902-1998) Historian and author

Source:

Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent, 1954

Categories:

Freedom, Happiness, Security, Prosperity, Liberty, Terrorism, Loyalty

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