And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
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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.
The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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.
If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.
Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
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