Liberties Quotes · Page 4

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

— Jeff Sessions

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I…

— Clarence Darrow

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

— Catherine McCormack

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

— John Milton

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

— David Greenberg

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

— Greg Kinnear

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

For a better society, some liberties need to be restricted and some shall be courageous to sacrifice themselves for equality.

— Anonymous

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense…

— Daniel Webster

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely…

— Gerald Bard Tjoflat

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by…

— Richard Henry Lee

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of…

— Felix Frankfurter

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a…

— Keith B. Alexander

In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our…

— Michael McCaul

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the…

— John F. Kennedy

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the…

— Alan Keyes

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. . . . The freemen of America did not…

— James Madison

If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters…

— Chauncey Depew

But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free…

— Richard Henry Lee

If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

— Plutarch

“Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.”

— Texas Bix Bender

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

— Anonymous

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

— Amitav Ghosh

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

— Alexander Hamilton

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

— Abraham Lincoln

The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the…

— Michael Kirby

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

— Marquis de Lafayette

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

— E. P. Thompson

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

— Tucker Carlson

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will…

— Herbert Spencer

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

— William Weld

“Whenever we are attacked, people are willing to give up someone else's liberties for their own security.”

— Andrew P. Napolitano

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

— Theresa May

If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?

— Viktor Orban