He signed Charter 08, an online petition calling for expanded liberties and universal suffrage, and wrote articles that promoted nonviolent protest.
The document, which demands an end to single-party rule and calls for expanded liberties, gathered 10,000 signatures before government censors blocked its circulation on the Internet.
A few weeks later, on Dec. 25, Mr. Liu was given an unexpectedly harsh 11-year sentence for publishing an online petition that sought expanded liberties.
A 54-year-old former literature professor, he was one of the main authors of Charter '08, a pro-democracy manifesto that calls for expanded liberties and the end to single-party rule in China.
Are they shrinking the size of our state government while providing essential services and expanding liberty?
The story of America is the story of expanding liberty: an ever-widening circle, constantly growing to reach further and include more.
Congress had hoped that its law might be protected by a controversial legal theory which held that, although it was the court's prerogative to define and protect a minimum degree of liberty, Congress might legitimately expand liberty's scope.
"I'm perfectly happy to work with anyone: Democrat, independent, libertarian," Cruz said, "if they're shrinking the size and power of the federal government, shrinking the debt and expanding liberty".
These items, presented as gifts to the Library on the occasion of the exhibition, were selected from more than 2,500 books in the Lapidus collection because each offers a distinctive voice in telling the story of expanding liberty.
Bush barely nudged Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, saying the three took "brave stands" against extremists and "some steps" to expand liberty, "yet they have a great distance still to travel". Nevertheless, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit lashed out at Bush for "unacceptable interference" and expressed "astonishment and upset" over his rebuke.
Coming from Russia, where the despotism of the Tsars was replaced by a far more repressive system of government, Isaiah Berlin didn't need English liberal thinkers to teach him that the overthrow of tyranny doesn't by itself expand liberty.
