The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Some say secularism is in their blood, some say liberty, all the while being the posterboys of persecution.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country. — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“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
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by… — Zoe Valdes Copy Share Image
President Obama's decision not to go to Congress for help in establishing reasonable standards for the continued detention of Guantanamo detainees is… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Our country has a lot of problems. When the world looks at how bad the United States is and then we go… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“In practice Truman's loyalty program was careless of civil liberties. The very word "loyalty" was problematic, encouraging zealots to bring charges on… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Civil Sanity (Sonnet 1631) You know what the problem is! We question love more than we question hate. We question humility more… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Deists, not religious authoritarians, codified the clear separation of church from state in addition to the division of powers within the state.… — Beth Houston Copy Share Image
“We must insist that free oratory is only the beginning of free speech; it is not the end, but a means to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“But until you ask why there’s an increase in social disintegration, and why more and more resources are being directed towards the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr 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
“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
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For a better society, some liberties need to be restricted and some shall be courageous to sacrifice themselves for equality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
