As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
Interpretation
Liberty can be harmed by those who are supposed to protect it.
Otto Hermann Kahn's quote suggests that the greatest threats to liberty often come not from its outright enemies, but rather from those within its own ranks who fail to uphold and protect it. This serves as a reminder that vigilance and responsibility are necessary among advocates and guardians of freedom to ensure it is preserved and nurtured.
In practice
In a speech about civic duty, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of protecting freedom.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.
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