Freedom To Be Earned And Refreshed Daily
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Mon, 2011-02-21 23:21
A quote from Geert Wilders in The Wall Street Journal, 22 February 2011:
My trial in Amsterdam is not about me, but about freedom of speech in Europe. As Dwight D. Eisenhower, Europe's liberator from Nazism, once warned, freedom "must be daily earned and refreshed—else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die." Today in Europe, freedom is being neither earned nor refreshed.
This was originally Jefferson
Submitted by Vilmos Soti on Tue, 2011-02-22 05:16.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/tree-liberty-quotation
Vilmos