Each one of the proposed laws is an infringement on my choice and your choice not to be a victim. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The last sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor in the U.S. Capitol. There are so many people who have written and spoken so eloquently on the issue of freedom which is ultimately the right to choose.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few . . .
The hand entrusted with power becomes . . . As we celebrate the blessings of this rich land, my wish for you is the freedom to choose not to be a victim. The same freedom sought by the women and men who first came to these shores.