“a free citizenry is too apathetic, too intimidated, too distracted, or just plain too ignorant to exercise its statutory liberties, those liberties… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it… — John Roberts 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
“After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. But it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“It’s all circling around the same problem of personal liberties,” Walter said. “People came to this country for either money or freedom.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Like a lot of lawyers in the party, my father combined uncritical devotion to the imaginary Soviet Union in his head with… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Gun control impinges upon the Second Amendment; involuntary commitment impinges upon the liberty clause of the Fifth Amendment; curbing 'entertainment' violence impinges… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Because a man is placed in charge of a club does not make it necessary for him to be a taskmaster or… — Joe Tinker Copy Share Image
The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values,… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance… — John Bright 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
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our… — Michael McCaul 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
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
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
“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is… — Joseph Befumo 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
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
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
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
The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the… — Lord George Gordon 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
Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and… — John Adams 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
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