Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty

by Bruce Bawer
Frontpage Magazine
December 8, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1958/eternal-vigilance-is-the-price-of-liberty

Excerpt:

am about to say something that will strike you as blindingly obvious. Here it is:

You can't believe everything the news media tell you.

Now, you know that, and I know it. Still, knowing it is one thing and living it is another. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," said a famous abolitionist. Eternal vigilance is also the price of truth. Which is to say that you can't ever afford to let down your guard when you're reading or watching or listening to the news. You may think you're taking it all in with a proper degree of cynicism, but are you? Or are you capable of being suckered into believing a lie if it's repeated often enough?

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