“Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions--as in moral truth and accountability they are.”

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Future of Industrial Man (1942), p. 115

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