Freedom Is Not a Luxury
We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly. If we put a premium on conformity we will, in the end, get conformity.
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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.
－Henry Steele Commager
自由不是奢侈品
一個社會不可能是半奴隸半自由性質的，人們的思想也不可能是半奴隸性半自由的。如果我們製造的是一種史人們害怕獨立思考，害怕大膽提問、害怕自由表達思想的氣氛，那麼，最終我們締造的是一個人們不再去獨立思考，不再想大膽提問的社會。如果我們強調順從，我們最終得到的，也是順從。
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自由並不是在人們已獲得生活保障，社會繁榮和思想解放之後再去享受她的一種奢侈。自由是獲得上述條件的一個前提，因為沒有這個大前提，也就不可能有生活的保障、社會的繁榮、和思想的解放。
－亨利 康馬傑
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