Forgotten Quote by Richard Henry Lee

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those…

— Richard Henry Lee

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

And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about. But don't…

— Mitt Romney

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

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

— Ron Paul

As history teaches us, freedom is never forgotten by those who have known it, and then lost it.

— Phil Scott

We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our…

— Howard Zinn

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

— E. P. Thompson

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire…

— Ronald Reagan

“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

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