And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
Evil comes from the abuse of free will.
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More Quotes from C. S. Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
More on Freedom
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Liberty only survives when it is defended.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
