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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a… — James Bryce
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History… — Felix Frankfurter
As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all… — Albert Einstein
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they… — H. L. Mencken
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. — Thomas Jefferson
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the… — Thomas Jefferson
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to… — Benjamin Franklin
The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious… — James Madison
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison
Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty. — David Hume
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. — Kofi Annan
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society… — Karl Marx
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government… — Strom Thurmond
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil… — Thomas Jefferson
It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break… — Thomas Jefferson
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of… — Robert A. Heinlein
A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights. — Chuck Palahniuk
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according… — James Madison
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. — George Washington
The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of the Islamic State… — Sean Patrick Maloney
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war. What real difference… — Tulsi Gabbard

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