Freedom: strength and hope

Andrea Preda writes about freedom at her Fuzzy Logic blog. Does freedom mean there's nothing left to lose, as in the Janis Joplin song?

Freedom isn’t despair and hopelessness; it’s strength and hope. Freedom is the rich soil in which a people blossom. Being free doesn’t mean you have nothing left to lose; it means you have everything to fight for, to nurture, to cherish.

Freedom doesn’t mean there’s nothing left to lose, for without freedom, we have nothing.

Read more here: http://fuzislippers.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/freedoms-not-just-another-word-for-nothing-left-to-lose/

From the comments section at Fuzzy Logic, Opus06 adds,

Freedom is an old man who chooses to hoard a particular type of item. When asked why, he replies, “because there was nobody to tell me not to.” Freedom is the ability to lie secure at night, not fearing the state will burst into one’s home on a pretext. Freedom is best backed up by the point of a gun. Thank God for the second Amendment. That is all that stands between us and tyranny.