Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set — and this in a world where half our fellow men have less than enough to eat.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman

“Putting First Things First”, Foreign Affairs (1960-01)
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