The idea of liberty is abstract to those who posses it so they willing head out of liberty toward "security" and end up crushed under the heel of oppression. Only then is liberty not abstract. That appears to be an eternal irony.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude more than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget you were our countrymen."
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