Samantha

“Americans often 'forget; that our history is not a Whiggish progress toward greater and greater freedom and equality but a far more complex story in which gains are made and last, rights are expanded and sometimes revoked, and ideas long since discredited rise like ghosts to haunt later generations. If our history teaches anything, it is that the question 'Who is an American?' has never had a fixed or simple answer.”
― Eric Forner

“If history teaches anything, it is that freedom is not achieved in a day; nor, once achieved, does it necessarily last forever. The price of maintaining freedom, as an Irish judge commented two centuries age, is 'eternal vigilance.”
― Eric Forner