The Meaning of Revolution...      
 
         But this difficulty in drawing the line between liberation and
         freedom in any set of historical circumstances does not mean
         that liberation and freedom are the same, or that those liberties
         which are won as the result of liberation tell the whole story of
         freedom, even though those who tried their hand at both libera-
         tion and the foundation of freedom more often than not did not
         distinguish between these matters very clearly either. The men of 
         the eighteenth-century revolutions had a perfect right to this
         lack of clarity; it was in the very nature of their enterprise that
         they discovered their own capacity and desire for the 'charms of 
         liberty', as John Jay once called them, only in the very act of
         Iiberation. For the acts and deeds which liberation demanded 
         from them threw them into public business, where, inten-
         tionally or more often unexpectedly, they began to constitute
         that space of appearances where freedom can unfold its charms
         and become a visible, tangible reality. Since they were not in the 
         least prepared for these charms, they could hardly be expected to
         be fully aware of the new phenomenon. It was nothing less
         than the weight of the entire Christian tradition which pre-
         vented them from owning up to the rather, obvious fact that they
         were enjoying what they were doing far beyond the call of duty.