W. Somerset Maugham on Freedom vs. Comfort

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W. Somerset Maugham Money Quotation saying The cost of freedom is vigilance, so loving comforts of wealth more than the freedom that makes them possible can be fatal to Freedom. W. Somerset Maugham said:
 

 

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too” — W. Somerset Maugham

 
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