I am convinced that the only hope for the survival of freedom is the widespread practice of individual responsibility, no matter how difficult it may be. For altogether too long a time we have regarded freedom as private privilege to indulge, debasing liberty into license in our habits if not in our thinking. It may take a crusade of revival proportions to cure the sick national soul, but somehow we must learn again that when the yoke of bondage is taken from the man’s neck the cross of responsibility is placed on his shoulders.

In the absence of individual concern, falsehood takes root and grows to produce a slow poison which paralyses awareness to danger while insuring certain destruction. it is the responsibility of the individual to proclaim the truth that liberates, to eradicate the falsehood wherever it appears, that the social body be cured. For society cannot cure itself any more than government can reform itself. Such cure comes, if it comes at all, from clear-thinking, far-seeing fearless individuals who dare to call poison “Poison!’ and who are not afraid to prescribe the painful medicine of self-improvement to cure it.