The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for all people ideally should apply everywhere in the world.
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It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
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 think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
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