Without abiding by the golden rule [virtue] there will be no security.  Because “Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort....” Jen Easterly, Director of CISA (Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency - our nation’s newest federal agency established in 2018) Oct. 29, 2021 https://www.c-span.org/video/?515706-1/protecting-critical-infrastructure FYI: CISA was hacked in January 2025 shortly after Trump replaced her as CISA’s Director.

BS!   We are social animals and the collective of humankind requires "virtue" to ensure our collective freedoms and security.  LOOK IT UP in the 120,000 communications between Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Madison now digitized in the US archives.  Freedom in mentioned 6000 times. Virtue mentioned with it...and in other places...  A few more times than freedom.  
 “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams 

"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." -- James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President Source: Federalist #57

This is only half true.  Freedom without virtue will result in offenses (intended or not) against someone or something (water, soil, food) that people need to survive and thrive.  We are all born free...but that only lasts if we do our best to take care of each other and nature.  Because... “Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort....” Jen Easterly, Director of CISA (Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency - our nation’s newest federal agency established in 2018) Oct. 29, 2021 https://www.c-span.org/video/?515706-1/protecting-critical-infrastructure The word ‘everything’ is an autological word – defining itself. We usually forget that our environment is our fundamental vital life support infrastructure! With everything vulnerable humanity must unite.
"There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure." - John Perkins

The "Truth" we need to hold as "self evident" is that if you, we or our nation is irresponsible with our freedoms, we will all lose both our freedom and security.  Irresponsible US foreign policy has abused the freedom and security of others beyond our shores.  Such freedom to interfere in other nations has created violent extremists who are willing to mass murder Americans and sacrfice their lives in the process. They are increasingly able to gain such power given free trade.  Every technological component necessary to create bio, cyber, robotic, chemical, nuclear and even conventional forms of WMD is on the global market.  Just one patriotic American being irresponsible in the US regarding the Covid19 or their use of antibiotics threatens the lives of countless Americans. So much for the freedom and security of those infected and their families, when they die. It's that kind of irresponsible behavior that can cause other's to demand government action to restrict freedom of movement of all US citizens, with the use of military force if things get bad enough, or our economic system collapses because of it.  

The context of the time was understanding that without the welfare of 'we the people' our nation security would be threatened. The first anti-hunger program was instituted because too many young Americans joining the US military at that time were malnourished. Even before that, during the last year of WW I the Spanish flu killed more US soldiers that the war. Many historians believed WW I ended largely because the global pandemic had made war time logistics unworkable...as well as many civil functions in every major power. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the horror's of WW II was a attempt to prevent future wars. Too bad the concept of human rights espoused in our Declaration of Independence wasn't instituted into our U.S. Constitution. That error cost more US lives during the civil war than all the wars since. If you still believe that the 'general welfare' of the population isn't essential to our own survival and sustainability you simply don't understand what the founders did when they wrote it. The Constitution is unfortunately about the protection of states rights and not human rights. BIG freakin error.

Right on. By "All" I'm assuming all people on earth, not just the US.