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We must regain the conviction on which liberty in the AngloSaxon countries has been based and which Benjamin Franklin
expressed in a phrase applicable to us as individuals no less than
as nations: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Toward a better world

To build a better world, we must have the courage to make a new

start. We must clear away the obstacles with which human folly
has recently encumbered our path and release the creative energy
of individuals. We must create conditions favourable to progress
rather than planning progress.
It is not those who cry for more planning who show the
necessary courage, nor those who preach a New Order, which
is no more than a continuation of the tendencies of the past 40
years, and who can think of nothing better than to imitate Hitler.
It is, indeed, those who cry loudest for a planned economy who are
most completely under the sway of the ideas which have created
this war and most of the evils from which we suffer.
The guiding principle in any attempt to create a world of free
men must be this: a policy of freedom for the individual is the only
truly progressive policy.

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Originally published in Look magazine

Reproduced from a booklet published by
General Motors, Detroit, in the Thought Starter series (no. 118)

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