"[E]ternal vigilance is the price of liberty,"...We see ourselves as a city on the hill, a stronghold for… — Timothy Snyder
"[E]ternal vigilance is the price of liberty,"...We see ourselves as a city on the hill, a stronghold for democracy, looking for threats from abroad. But the sense of the saying was entirely different: that human nature is such that American democracy must be defended from Americans who would exploit its freedoms to bring about its end.
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