Freedom should be free, I suggest, in making an argument that we should not make it so hard for people to come to America.
Only to have a Facebook friend fire back, "Uh, freedom wasn't exactly free for the Founding Fathers. They pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, and it wasn't idle rhetoric."
And, another replied, "Freedom is never free, it must be purchased with blood through every generation."
Good thoughts, those are. In such a sense, freedom is not free. But, the freedom to come to America is not one that needs to be earned through spilling blood to get here. Freedoms that need to be won are won by those who don't have them from those who won't just give them away. But when freedom is won, it should not hoarded, but shared, freely.
The man who shares not his freedom knows not its meaning.
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