America Quote by Molly Ivins

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

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

— E. P. Thompson

For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of…

— Joe Biden

“Now as always in our history, reading is among our greatest freedoms”

— The Freedom to Read Statement

I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and…

— P. Chidambaram

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them.…

— Jose Rizal

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

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

“Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.”

— Patricia O'Hara

“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’3”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

This is a time when the protections of Americans' liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have served to…

— Patrick Leahy

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

— Alexander H. Stephens