Best Liberties Words
402 Liberties quotes by 276 unique authors
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Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its…
— Corliss Lamont
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Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
— William E. Gladstone
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Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to…
— Barack Obama
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Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
— Brian Setzer
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How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
— Roger Stone
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The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
— Ludwig Borne
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in…
— Xavier Becerra
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One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to…
— Sean Hannity
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Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law
— Michael Foot
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When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have…
— Charlotte Mary Yonge
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The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation…
— Ted Olson
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The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
— Bill Shuster
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O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are…
— George Whitefield
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If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the…
— Learned Hand
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I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric…
— Patricia Hewitt
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The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear…
— Chris Hedges
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It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the…
— Earl Warren
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right…
— Joseph Story
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The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States
— John Ashcroft
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of…
— William McKinley
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People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three…
— Melissa Etheridge
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