Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion? — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act? — Ras Kass Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. But it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
“a free citizenry is too apathetic, too intimidated, too distracted, or just plain too ignorant to exercise its statutory liberties, those liberties… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sacrificing British liberties will not protect us. It just plays into the hands of the terrorists. The justice system is not the… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again. — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself. — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Take liberties you shouldn’t and you’ll find your liberties are taken from you.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“We’ve built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.” — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
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