Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.