Liberties Quotes
402 quotes by 287 authors
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I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the…
— Michele Bachmann
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
— John Quincy Adams
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
— Lance Bass
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them…
— Samuel Adams
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
— Joe Biden
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from…
— William J. Brennan
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In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a…
— Harry Browne
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
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The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the…
— John C. Calhoun
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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here…
— Barbara Jordan
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties…
— Josh Jones
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
— James Madison
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No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights…
— Wendell Willkie
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Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you…
— Trey Gowdy
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic…
— Susan Sontag
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The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs…
— Ron Paul
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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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