The Underlying Assumption That Human Nature Is

Liberty And Equality, Spontaneity And Security, Happiness And Knowledge, Mercy And Justice - All These Are Ultimate Human Values, Sought For Themselves Alone; Yet When They Are Incompatible, They Cannot All Be Attained, Choices Must Be Made, Sometimes Tragic Losses Accepted In The Pursuit Of Some Preferred Ultimate End.

Few New Truths Have Ever Won Their Way Against The Resistance Of Established Ideas Save By Being Overstated.

The Underlying Assumption That Human Nature Is Basically The Same At All Times, Everywhere, And Obeys Eternal Laws Beyond Human Control, Is A Conception That Only A Handful Of Bold Thinkers Have Dared To Question.

Those Who Have Ever Valued Liberty For Its Own Sake Believed That To Be Free To Choose, And Not To Be Chosen For, Is An Inalienable Ingredient In What Makes Human Beings Human.

The Fundamental Sense Of Freedom Is Freedom From Chains, From Imprisonment, From Enslavement By Others. The Rest Is Extension Of This Sense, Or Else Metaphor.