Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.