Liberty

You say you cannot see it or quantify it or describe it qualitatively, but I say it is what we admire when we prefer a living, breathing, moving fellow being to the most beautiful statue of such by the greatest sculptor. It is at once static and dynamic, exhibiting a flow in greek statuary and is in the gait of your walk as you move across the room.

The hard fact is it is unsafe, where order is achieved by a general prevalence of fear while Liberty is absent.

The tradition is, peace is not to be preferred over it.

If it must be hard fought and hard won, then so be it.

Rousseau said it can be won, but it cannot be won again.

So we must continue to be wild and woolly.

We must continue to execute robust actions, continue to exhibit robust courage, continue to prescribe to the robust idealistic tenacity of Patrick Henry, where death is preferred to loss of it.

Imagine if you had limbs, yet no strength to move them. An eye, but no light to see. An ear, but no nerve to hear.

Such would be the state of an aristocracy or democracy without Liberty. People would be subject to magistrates, and not the laws they've agreed to establish.

Rousseau said no matter how pretty and solid they be, it is houses that make the town, but that it is the citizens who make the city.

Politically, the penultimate virtue of the citizen is Liberty.

And so, may Liberty continue.