Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself. — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again. — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the… — John F. Kennedy 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
We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a… — Keith B. Alexander 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
You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sacrificing British liberties will not protect us. It just plays into the hands of the terrorists. The justice system is not the… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed a… — John Paul Davis Copy Share Image
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I think that there's going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our… — Barbara Lee 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
It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion? — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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