With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
The United States has a responsibility to defend our values.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
We have to protect the rights of the American people.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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