Civil liberties Quote by Edward Bennett Williams

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But…

— Tim Cook

And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about. But don't…

— Mitt Romney

The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first…

— Aaron Rodgers

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

— Joe Biden

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with…

— James McGreevey

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

— Richard Belzer

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

— Aldous Huxley

The American Civil Liberties Union has a reputation for serving as a 'guardian of liberty,' protecting our privacy and the First Amendment rights of…

— Tom Fitton

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

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,…

— H. L. Mencken

“We’ve built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.”

— Charles Wheelan

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law

— Michael Foot