Civil liberties Quote by William O. Douglas

Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor,…

— William O. Douglas

People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these…

— Murray Bookchin

“You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down:…

— Ronald Reagan

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

— John F. Kennedy

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media.…

— Cornel West

It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the…

— Timothy D. Snyder

“Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.”

— Iain Banks

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no…

— John Adams

“The basis of freedom as well are [sic] the restraints commonly accepted by the members of the group in which the rules of morals…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.”

— Newton Lee

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody…

— Tucker Carlson