If it feels as though we’re surrounded, that’s because we are. For freedom-minded Americans, this is an unnerving time. But that’s exactly the way it’s always been.
As inspiring as Reagan’s words are, they leave out the chilling context that Lord Acton’s provide: “At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities[.]” If the task of defending freedom seems daunting, if the odds of success seem narrow, if socialism’s darkness seems ever near, take strength that this has always been the price for freedom. We are all of us at all times cut-off paratroopers far behind enemy lines. Defenders of freedom will always be surrounded. No battle will be final, no victory permanent, no peace respected by freedom’s enemies. We will be forced to fight tooth and nail for freedom, or there will be none at all.
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