Anxiety Quote by Diosdado Macapagal

“I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever…

— Abraham Lincoln

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that…

— Anonymous

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by…

— James Madison

A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they…

— John Stuart Mill

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

— Thurgood Marshall

“Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people can do…

— Paul Graham

“The basis of freedom as well are [sic] the restraints commonly accepted by the members of the group in which the rules of morals…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

— Larry Craig

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are…

— Tariq Ramadan

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