Quote by John E Moss

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

— James Monroe

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

— Thomas Jefferson

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

— Alan Dershowitz

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are…

— Jonathan Mayhew

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the…

— Christopher Dodd

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

— Edmund Burke

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While…

— Samuel Adams

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

— Anonymous

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

— Aldous Huxley

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

— Anonymous

The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly undermining the…

— James F. Cooper