Nothing is more powerful than a man with a conscience. Not even the most powerful government the world has ever seen -- with its bounteous rewards for obedience and terrible retribution for rebellion -- could stop Edward Snowden from doing what he believed was right and gumming up the works. In so doing, he likely sacrificed everything in this world, an act that confounds the modern mind in its perception of happiness as purely material. I've said it before, and it's time to say it again: men cannot live by bread alone. We crave truth and justice, and by fighting for them Edward Snowden has become far richer than he ever was or could otherwise be. They can whisk him away and rob him of his due process to their hearts' desire, but he has transcended and defeated them.
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