It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.