Liberties Quotes · Page 2

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

— Emma Bonino

Little liberties are great offenses.

— Aesop

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.

— Walter E. Williams

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

— John Lothrop Motley

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

— Isak Dinesen

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law

— Michael Foot

“Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.”

— Patricia O'Hara

“Lie, take liberties and pursue women.”

— Steven Magee

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

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be…

— Lee Kuan Yew

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

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

— William O. Douglas

“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

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

— Gerald R. Ford

We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the…

— Charles Kennedy

“a free citizenry is too apathetic, too intimidated, too distracted, or just plain too ignorant to exercise its statutory liberties, those liberties…

— Anonymous

I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it…

— John Roberts

Sacrificing British liberties will not protect us. It just plays into the hands of the terrorists. The justice system is not the…

— Dominic Raab

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was…

— Ira Sachs

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men…

— William O. Douglas

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of…

— Frederic Bastiat

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this…

— Robert Byrd

Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during…

— Ron Paul

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

The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we…

— Molly Ivins

Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings…

— George Sutherland

“I have also frequently heard people question the faith of Thomas Jefferson. However, in his 1781 notes on the state of Virginia,…

— Ben Carson

“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

If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again…

— Walter E. Williams

Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right…

— Paul Kurtz

“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be…

— Abraham Lincoln

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

— Charles Krauthammer

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

— James Madison

When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties,

— Jonas Jonasson

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those…

— Anonymous

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

— George W. Bush

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

— A. J. Muste