A man who wishes to be free must first understand what freedom is. He must love it, as a child loves a storybook, as a knight loves his sword, as a sailor loves the open sea. And because he loves it, he must be prepared to defend it—not in the tired jargon of the progressive, who is forever demanding a new and more fashionable sort of slavery, but in the ancient and romantic sense of one who stands at the gate with sword in hand.