"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither." — Benjamin Franklin

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• Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. — Joe Biden
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• I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens… — Barbara Jordan
• Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. — Alexander Hamilton
• [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the… — Alexander Hamilton
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• A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they… — Benjamin Franklin
• The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why… — Ron Paul
• The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to… — Marya Mannes
• Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the… — John Quincy Adams
• It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on… — Felix Frankfurter

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