Henry Steele Commager - Freedom, loyalty, dissent (1954)

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If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function, it must have dissent.

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 an antecedent to all of these, for without it, we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Henry Steele Commager

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

Henry Steele Commager