Those who have never lost their freedom do not truly understand its enormous value and why so many gave up and will give up their lives in freedom’s pursuit. – Chris Banescu
Found a similar observation while searching the web:
Those who have never lost their freedom are apt to sneer cynically at the exaltation of liberty; but the escaped prisoner in “Don Quixote” was wiser when he said, “There is nothing in this world, in my opinion, that can be compared to the regaining of liberty that one has lost,” and Cervantes knew, for he had been a prisoner of the Turks. If a man would learn the value of freedom, let him go live behind the barbed wire and life for three and a half years under the heel of the conqueror.
http://www.hopeuu.org/sermons/LessonsofLoss.htm
. . . more
