Quote by James Madison

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of…

— James Madison

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

— James Madison

“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

...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties,…

— Larry P. Arnn

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

“National security was invoked so freely that the First Amendment had become an empty promise. ”

— Matthew Bracken

“After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. But it has proven…

— Anonymous

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

— Ron Paul

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill…

— William O. Douglas

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”

— James Madison

“liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. . . . [T]he former rather than the latter is…

— Ron Chernow