It was the helpless people, who had no savings, no jobs, no reserves to fall back upon, that could not afford to speak their minds, or to take any risks, to be, as he says, in any real sense of the word, individual citizens. Mr. Lippmann finds that, in his experience, the more he sees of Europe, the more deeply convinced does he become that the preservation of freedom, in America and anywhere else, depends upon maintaining and restoring, for the great majority of individuals, the economic means to remain independent individuals, He of the opinion that the greatest evil of the modern world is the reduction, of the people to a proletarian level by destroying their savings, by depriving them of private property, by making them the helpless employees of a private monopoly or of government monopoly.
So, Masaryk built securely from the heart's core outwards and it can be readily sensed, without any pretence to political prophesying, how such a people like the Czechs are going to Sight for the preservation of their rights and liberties even if they have to sacrifice themselves in the bitter process,. resting in the confidence that the great democracies must come into it for their own similar long-range best interests, Certainly in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior: for! no genius to disputes religion: and have often thought it wisdom to decline them, especially' upon a disadvantage, or when the cause of truth might suffer in the weakness of my patronage—Sta Tuostas Browne,
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