To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.
We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without strong national security and a thoughtful and informed discourse.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
We have to protect the rights of the American people.
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.
I'm tired of hearing about this 'well-regulated militia' that is so necessary for American freedom.
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.