fear: liberty's first natural enemy

fdr made a truly brilliant choice when he named freedom from fear as the final component in his january 1941 four freedoms speech.

when terrorists kill one person, they terrorize thousands. when they kill hundreds, they terrify millions, who get down on their knees and beg the state to do whatever it takes to make them safe.

when government coerces or manipulates citizens into giving up rights, fear is the power behind its authority.

fear is a wall of flame that arises in moments of danger to surround the body, becloud the senses, and befog reason.

it makes us overreact to real threats and react unnecessarily to imagined threats.

thus we lose our ability to choose appropriate effective action.

to preserve liberty, we must defeat fear.