Civil liberties Quote by Robert M. La Follette, Sr

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected…

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

— John Quincy Adams

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

— Alexander Hamilton

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

— John Adams

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can…

— William Godwin

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

The commitment to civil liberty is going to be reasserted strongly. But the concept of liberty is under attack, and our definition of insecurity,…

— Ashraf Ghani

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

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

— John Milton

Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.

— Ignacio Ellacuria