Take the right of free speech, for example. It's working right up here before your very eyes. I continue challenging the press at every opportunity, which in turn will call me a senile old man somewhere in America before the day is over. Or freedom of religion. Your God may not be quite the same as my God, but by God I'll fight to defend your right to worship.
Few things are more precious to free men around the world than the right to own property.
To work it, build it, buy it, sell it. As long as you don't imperil your fellow man, there's no reason for the heavy hand of government to interfere with this free process. But as the years go by, we get complacent with our freedoms. And before you know it, there's a permit for this and a license for that, a federal inspector at the front door, an IRS agent sneaking round the back door and somebody from the EPA stuck in the chimney. I'm aware of your problem concerning salmon and its sudden appearance on the endangered species list.