A Riddle of Freedom

A Riddle of Freedom


We are teetering on the edge of an election that will pit viewpoints against each other that bear little resemblance to principles that are woven through the country's history since its founding.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn. “One of those riddles is: how is it that the people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body, while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste for it, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?”