It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. (Dorothy Thompson)

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Dorothy Thompson

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