Fear Quote by Brian Setzer

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days…

— George Whitefield

If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live…

— Joe Bageant

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to…

— Learned Hand

Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human…

— Mary Robinson

It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would…

— Julian Sanchez

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

— William Kingdon Clifford

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to…

— John F. Kennedy

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

— Gerald R. Ford

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack…

— John Howard

Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals;…

— John Dickinson

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson