But we failed bitterly in Bosnia. As a result, a quarter of a million people were massacred. This was a horror that I, for one, never expected to see again in my lifetime. But it happened. The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.
Free societies demand more care and devotion than any others.
They are, moreover, the only societies with moral foundations, and those foundations are evident in their political, economic, legal, cultural, and, most importantly, spiritual life. We who are living in the West today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. Others before us have done so. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us.