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Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the… — William O. Douglas
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
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not… — Thomas Jefferson
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but… — Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set… — Thomas Jefferson
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they… — Wendell Phillips
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts… — Thomas Jefferson
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited. — Herbert Spencer
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the… — Immanuel Kant
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the… — John F. Kennedy
It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of… — Richard Henry Lee
Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away… — Vladimir Lenin
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness… — Joseph Sobran
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and… — Harry Browne
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration… — Woodrow Wilson
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .… — Thomas Jefferson
I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in… — Barry Goldwater
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. — Thomas Jefferson
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at… — Alexander Hamilton
We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be… — Unknown Author
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we… — Robert Bork
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. — William Cohen
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took… — Unknown Author
We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed… — Wayne LaPierre

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