Article January 30, 1943 Issue

Signs of the Times

Liberty and Sacrifice

with contributions from Cordell Hull, Walton E. Cole, Robert Homiston, Donald M. Nelson, J. Rolph Morden, Fred A. Line

Cordell Hull, Secretary of State New York Herald Tribune

Liberty is truly won only when it is guarded by the same watchfulness, the same courage, the same willingness to fight for it which first secured it. Repeatedly throughout history, free men—having won the fight, having acquired precious rights and privileges which freedom brings—have dropped their guard, relaxed their vigilance, taken their freedom for granted. They have busied themselves with many things and have not noticed the beginnings of new tyrannies, the rise of new threats to liberty. ...

There is no surer way for men and for nations to show themselves worthy of liberty than to fight for its preservation, in any way that is open to them, against those who would destroy it for all. ...

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