Our freedoms today are not so much in danger because people are consciously trying to take them away from us as they are in danger because we forget to use them. Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves — not of the government.


NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association (1952)

Margaret Chase Smith Quotes

Our freedoms today are not so much in danger because people are consciously trying to take them away from us as they are in danger because we forget...

Our freedoms today are not so much in danger because people are consciously trying to take them away from us as they are in danger because we forget...

Our freedoms today are not so much in danger because people are consciously trying to take them away from us as they are in danger because we forget...

Our freedoms today are not so much in danger because people are consciously trying to take them away from us as they are in danger because we forget...