[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never…

The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress…

— Noam Chomsky

When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more…

— Ron Paul

Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.

— Shimon Peres

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale

...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Alexander Hamilton

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack…

— John Howard

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

— Marquis de Lafayette

Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals;…

— John Dickinson

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

— Betty Hill

“Among those liberties which we in this UNION claim for the child, due to him as a person, is freedom of thought, the function…

— Parents' National Education Union

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the…

— Timothy D. Snyder

Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly…

— Gary Johnson

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

— George Whitefield