It is just a generic quote that anyone could say, and even mean, it isn’t conservative or liberal or anything.
How you are trying to construct it into some great revelation or meaningful position statement, is baffling.
Libertarians do this all the time, they will devour a thread without saying anything meaningful or clear, they’ll be arguing and yelling, and even angry, yet they won’t actually say anything, they just keep it vague and cryptic.
“It is just a generic quote that anyone could say, and even mean, it isn’t conservative or liberal or anything.”
The context mattered, and the audience. At least it seemed so to me, that’s why I mentioned it - as the isolated statement.
Do you really think liberals want to encourage people to defend their liberties? I don’t. Maybe some time in the past, but not now. That is a quaint conservative notion.