Thought of the day - Life without liberty is like a body without spirit

Thought of the day - Liberty

'Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.' Such quotations sound stirring but what is so great about liberty? Is not freedom of choice the very thing that leads to our own undoing? When we actually are at liberty to do as we please, do we not often waste our chance? Is the world not full of birds in cages where the door has been left open but the occupant is too frightened or unimaginative to fly out? Perhaps.