Liberties Quotes
A speaker warns that tyrants claim civil liberties end when safety is threatened. Other quotes argue that freedoms come from pre‑existing rights, not from charters, and that people must remind rulers of the spirit of resistance. The theme also touches on how clergy could threaten those liberties.
![“Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all…” quote by William Blackstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/william-blackstone-14453_beneficial_trial-by-jury-is-a-privilege-of-the-high_211262.jpg)
![“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never saw nor signed, seem anyway to have reneged on their side of the bargain which was to protect our lives and liberties. The new institutionally…” quote by Mick Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b18/mick-smith-106663_communication_they-anarchists-and-radical-environmenta_862715.jpg)
![“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/i/efb/abraham-lincoln-88_armed-forces_these-the-armed-forces-are-not-our-relia_469625.png)
