Citizens Quote by James Madison

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

— James Madison

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case…

— Alexander Hamilton

In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case…

— James Madison

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

Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation…

— Thomas Paine

Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that…

— Edward Bennett Williams

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

— Roger Williams

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers…

— William Graham Sumner

There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated…

— Joseph Story

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community…

— George Washington

Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the…

— St. George Tucker