"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

Robert Heinlein

We will move toward a free society, one by one.  We will never achieve a free society in the sense that we can finalize the process.  The price of freedom is eternal effort aimed at achieving self-control and self-mastery.  We do not achieve this by controlling others.  We move toward achievement when we learn to control and govern ourselves.  Freedom is self-control, not license to impose on others.

It has taken a lifetime to learn this.  I am grateful that I have lived.  I am even grateful that I have made mistakes, yet continued to live so that I could learn more.  Man learns by trial and error.  Few of us learn much of anything by success.

I am also grateful that some across this great country of America agree with at least some of my conclusions.  They are out there now, quietly minding their own business, improving their own performance, raising their own standards, and willfully imposing on none.

At the moment, man knows too much and understands too little of what he knows.  But the answer you seek for is in your self.  There is no logical “other place” for it to be.

Robert LeFevre