If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.