If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China. — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from… — George Allen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
“I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to… — Richard LaGravenese 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
The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“I have also frequently heard people question the faith of Thomas Jefferson. However, in his 1781 notes on the state of Virginia,… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Among those liberties which we in this UNION claim for the child, due to him as a person, is freedom of thought,… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never… — Mick Smith Copy Share Image
“Government surveillance is a blatant violation of our fundamental right to privacy, an intrusion into the sacred space where personal thoughts and… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather… — Will Kymlicka Copy Share Image
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The Constitution became even more acceptable to the public at large after the first Congress, responding to criticism, passed a series of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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![“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/efb/abraham-lincoln-88_armed-forces_these-the-armed-forces-are-not-our-relia_469625.jpg)