Civil liberties Quote by A. J. Muste

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

— William O. Douglas

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

— Aldous Huxley

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law

— Michael Foot

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

— John Rawls

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

— Joe Biden

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

— Ira Glasser

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

— E. P. Thompson

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

I decided a long time ago that protecting our Second Amendment means doing so across the board, no exceptions.

— Ronny Jackson

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

— Richard Belzer

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

— Ron Paul

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

— Andre Breton