Civil liberties Quote by Neil Nakadate

“National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph over political…

— David Baldacci

“Whenever we are attacked, people are willing to give up someone else's liberties for their own security.”

— Andrew P. Napolitano

“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

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

— Larry Flynt

“We’ve built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.”

— Charles Wheelan

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

— Matthew Bracken

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

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

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the…

— Jupiter Hammon

I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security,…

— Jeremy Scahill

“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For radicals, the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Having my basic human freedoms torn from me by ruthless and malicious governments, I am forever grateful for all the wonderful opportunities this great…

— Al Zelczer