Civil liberties Quote by Marya Mannes

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

— Ehud Barak

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

— Joe Biden

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

— Andre Breton

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to…

— Gerald Bard Tjoflat

There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would…

— Robert Byrd

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

— Aldous Huxley

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

— Howard Stern

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

— John Paul Stevens

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid…

— Thomas Sowell

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

— Eliot Engel

“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