I just heard an incredible essay about America, Ideas and Liberty by Andrew Klavan the author of numerous books. You can listen to it at http://www.pjtv.com/video/Klavan_on_Culture/_September_11%2C_2009/2411/ but here's an excerpt of the speech by this eloquent man as I tried to write down his words:
Ideas are interesting things...
Ideas are known to us only by physical means but have no physical presence...by our brain chemistry. Ideas take the shape of our culture and our cultural moment...
Ideas have qualities and characteristics. There are good ideas and false ones....
Ideas create a force on human action....Ideas create a tension between themselves and our behavior and the resolution of that tension can set the very course of history.
Our nation once tore itself apart because its' practice of slavery could not co-exist forever with its' principle of liberty. That liberty is the great American Idea...
As our founders knew, embracing the idea of liberty means leaving other attractive ideas behind. You can't be free in all things...
The price of liberty is great...
You can't be free and have guaranteed financial security...
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