Liberties Quotes · Page 5

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

— James Monroe

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

— Alexander Hamilton

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

— Eliot Engel

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

— Baron Goodman Arnold Goodman

I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of…

— Paul Ryan

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

— James Madison

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

— Clarence Darrow

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his…

— Enoch Powell

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found…

— Jonathan Mayhew

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values,…

— Vaclav Klaus

This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance…

— John Bright

The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will…

— Ron Paul

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the…

— Lord George Gordon

The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid…

— Rick Falkvinge

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your…

— George Whitefield

Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions…

— Mary Robinson

“Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make…

— Edward Abbey

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper…

— Gerald R. Ford

It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular…

— Julian Sanchez

I think that there's going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our…

— Barbara Lee

Gun control impinges upon the Second Amendment; involuntary commitment impinges upon the liberty clause of the Fifth Amendment; curbing 'entertainment' violence impinges…

— Charles Krauthammer

The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front…

— Bob Barr

There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the…

— Ronald Reagan

“Like a lot of lawyers in the party, my father combined uncritical devotion to the imaginary Soviet Union in his head with…

— Katha Pollitt

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are…

— Ron Paul

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

— Brian Setzer

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

— Larry Craig

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone

— Edgar Watson Howe

“In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison, U.S. President”

— George Washington

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

— Ehud Barak

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty

— Adlai E Stevenson

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

— John Quincy Adams

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." ---Thomas Jefferson”

— Henry Makow

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to…

— Sarah Fielding

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

— William Kingdon Clifford

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure…

— Jacob Schiff

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

— Alexander H. Stephens

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

— William Lloyd Garrison

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

— Betty Hill