From The Patriot 7-14 Brief

LIBERTY

"It has been said that a child who is made to earn a toy most often takes
better care of it than a child who was simply given the toy. Well, our
nation has become a nation of children who have been given, not a toy, but
the gifts of freedom and a Constitutional Republic with which to safeguard
that freedom and we are abusing these gifts with our relentless apathy and
ignorance. Because it is impossible to understand the value of something
without knowing its worth, our society has become estranged from the value
of freedom. We toss around the saying 'freedom isn't free' but we hardly
understand the price of attaining and maintaining that freedom. The majority
of us have never actually fought for our liberties and we most assuredly
have never lived under the tyranny of oppression, although the delusional
Progressive-Left would argue otherwise. We have become soft, self-centered
and egotistical and our country is a worse place for it." ---Frank Salvato