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Freedom per se is a mirage. Without restrictions one cannot know what it is to be really free.
One learns alphabets and to make sentences; and rules of grammar are set in place so sentences can be constructed without fault. Without rules, language is dead and merely trotting words is confusion. One masters the language so his mastery is demonstrated in his ability to break the rules where it adds to the sense and highlight a certain mood. If Shakespeare had not, how poorer the English language would have been? The context decides the breaking of rules. Never for the sake of exercising one’s freedom. So it is with every sphere in our lives.
A citizen cannot be free absolutely anymore than the highest of the republic. Good governance must depend on both parties: the ruled and the ruler. Without respecting the spirit of the times the statesman who rigidly sticks to his position is a rank fool!
A prayer: ‘O God grant me freedom so I may not ever want to restrict freedom in others.’

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