“Thinking citizens are no good to democracy, either you obey blind or be branded a terrorist. Either you hold your mouth, mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
“Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Resistance to change in the mental health system comes disguised as protection of civil liberties and freedom of speech. As a result,… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
NATO is based on shared values. Democracy, individual civil liberties and the rule of law. In public and also in meetings with… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach…This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st,… — Luther L. Bohanon Copy Share Image
“From October 2003, I uncovered the following quote, which fully expressed the climate of fear of the time --- "Any democratic government,… — W. Montgomery Copy Share Image
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil… — Rocco Galati Copy Share Image
“Although Holmes's apothegm, "detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife," is sometimes quoted, Holmes scholars have generally… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In Shanghai, there were several pro-right circles of former officers. They realized that the Great War and European revolutions were a direct… — Elvira Baryakina Copy Share Image
“As for righting wrongs and fighting for civil liberties, that sort of thing, it wouldn't be so bad ... but then we… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope,… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they'd been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries CSIRA erected on a moment's notice. The rules… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
“The goal was a U.S. Gestapo. Senator Ervin described the espionage squad inside the White House as a “gestapo mentality.” J. Edgar… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims .… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“In practice Truman's loyalty program was careless of civil liberties. The very word "loyalty" was problematic, encouraging zealots to bring charges on… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Civil Sanity (Sonnet 1631) You know what the problem is! We question love more than we question hate. We question humility more… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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