The Fundamental Sense Of Freedom Is Freedom

We Are Doomed To Choose And Every Choice May Entail Irreparable Loss.

Those Who Have Ever Valued Liberty For Its Own Sake Believed That To Be Free To Choose, And Not To Be Chosen For, Is An Inalienable Ingredient In What Makes Human Beings Human.

Injustice, Poverty, Slavery, Ignorance - These May Be Cured By Reform Or Revolution. But Men Do Not Live Only By Fighting Evils. They Live By Positive Goals, Individual And Collective, A Vast Variety Of Them, Seldom Predictable, At Times Incompatible.

The Case Against The Notion Of Historical Objectivity Is Like The Case Against International Law, Or International Morality; That It Does Not Exist.

The Notion Of The Perfect Whole, The Ultimate Solution In Which All Good Things Coexist, Seems To Me Not Merely Unobtainable--that Is A Truism--but Conceptually Incoherent. ......some Among The Great Goods Cannot Live Together. That Is A Conceptual Truth. We Are Doomed To Choose, And Every Choice May Entail An Irreparable Loss.