If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough...I think you can get the support you need.
I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.
I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.
We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the state, materially and spiritually. We should not look to the state to provide us financially or psychologically. Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens.
I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.
We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.
