Philip Rieff

What men lose when they become as free as gods is precisely that sense of being chosen, which encourages them in their gratitude, to take their subsequent choices seriously. Put in another way, this means: Freedom does not exist without responsibility.
-Philip Rieff. The Triumph of the Therapeutic. (79)

Freedom

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
-Ronald Reagan