Balance Quote by Barbara Lee

I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security,…

— Jeremy Scahill

And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about. But don't…

— Mitt Romney

The big issue is this incremental whittling away of our constitutional rights, our most important constitutional rights, including freedom of speech. This is something…

— John Kiriakou

Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major…

— Chelsea Manning

We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

— Rafael Cruz

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to…

— Gerald Bard Tjoflat

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping…

— Barack Obama

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

— Neil Young

I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety…

— Chance The Rapper

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we…

— John Dean

This is a time when the protections of Americans' liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have served to…

— Patrick Leahy