Originally published in Look magazine

Reproduced from a booklet published by

General Motors, Detroit, in the ‘Thought Starter’ series (no. 118)

We must regain the conviction on which liberty in the Anglo-

Saxon countries has been based and which Benjamin Franklin

expressed in a phrase applicable to us as individuals no less than

as nations: ‘Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase

a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.’

Toward a better world

To build a better world, we must have the courage to make a new

start. We must clear away the obstacles with which human folly

has recently encumbered our path and release the creative energy

of individuals. We must create conditions favourable to progress

rather than ‘planning progress’.

It is not those who cry for more ‘planning’ who show the

necessary courage, nor those who preach a ‘New Order’, which

is no more than a continuation of the tendencies of the past 40

years, and who can think of nothing better than to imitate Hitler.

It is, indeed, those who cry loudest for a planned economy who are

most completely under the sway of the ideas which have created

this war and most of the evils from which we suffer.

The guiding principle in any attempt to create a world of free

men must be this: a policy of freedom for the individual is the only

truly progressive policy.

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