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• 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 beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton
• Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his… — William Graham Sumner
• I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational… — Rick Steves
• A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin
• Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of… — John Quincy Adams
• As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and… — Albert Einstein
• Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty. — David Hume
• ...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil… — Robert A. Heinlein
• But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson
• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — Edmund Burke
• There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long… — Joseph Story

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