Civil liberties Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers…

— William Graham Sumner

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

— Henry Campbell Black

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

— John Howard

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has…

— Marquis de Lafayette

[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative…

— Samuel Adams

“Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.”

— John Stuart Mill

The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

— Margaret Thatcher

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

— Isaiah Berlin