“Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil… — Neil Nakadate Copy Share Image
While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they'd been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries CSIRA erected on a moment's notice. The rules… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
“Religious freedom is embedded within a much larger bundle of civil liberties. At the core of religious expression is the freedom of… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
“Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We (the left) have to be used to being a minority—a small minority—for some time to come. The odd thing is that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The only reason malcontent party hacks and academics are allowed to pontificate about civil liberties from the safety of their ivory towers… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Many members of the Hollywood community are very liberal and they value their civil liberties more than they value life. I disagree… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those on the… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil… — Rocco Galati Copy Share Image
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
