Civil liberties Quote by David Greenberg

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

— George W. Bush

The only reason malcontent party hacks and academics are allowed to pontificate about civil liberties from the safety of their ivory towers is because…

— Mike Johnson

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.…

— Felix Frankfurter

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.…

— Felix Frankfurter

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

— Aldous Huxley

We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our…

— Howard Zinn

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack…

— John Howard

It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the…

— Timothy D. Snyder

Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too…

— Ron Paul

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

— Joe Biden

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a…

— George Orwell

[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights…

— Antonin Scalia