When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly:
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Responsibility is assumed not guaranteed.
Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.
History has shown us, that you can't allow the mass extermination of people, and just sit by and watch it happen.
You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy.
We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.
'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States …
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the…