“TORN BUT FLYING”
FREEDOM QUICKLY LOST. The free nations of both hemispheres have been deeply shocked to discover how swiftly freedom can be lost, writes Mr ,J. B. Firth in the “Daily Telegraph." It seemed something fixed, secure. established beyond assault. We used sometimes to bring out that rather pompous saying. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." but it was usually in connection with the fruits of some party or partisan victory. Freedom has never been passed down from above. Its banner is always "torn but flying.” and if. as Byron also wrote. "For freedom's battle once begun, bequeathed by bleeding sire to son. though baffled oft is ever Avon." it is always at a price swollen and then quadrupled by those incorrigible faults of neglect which freedom herself is so fatally apt to generate.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1940, Page 3
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