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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? — Abraham Lincoln

We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them. — Carl-John X. Veraja

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. — Clarence Darrow

I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty. — John Mackey

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason ... — Cato The Younger

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties. — Dick Durbin

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

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. — David K. Shipler

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties. — Charles A. Reich

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. — James Madison

no man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.46 Laissez-faire, — Abraham Joshua Heschel

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. — Gore Vidal

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America. — George W. Bush

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself. — Saxby Chambliss

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them. — James A. Garfield

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic ... — Joseph Story

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. — William S. Cohen

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. — Lance Bass

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror? — Cory Doctorow

We've built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order. — Charles Wheelan

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. — Herbert Spencer

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government. — Meir Soloveichik

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. — William J. Brennan

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold. — Walter E. Williams

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China. — Gary Locke

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. — Thomas Jefferson

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take. — Henry James

We may sometimes take greater liberties in November than in May. — Jane Austen

Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator. — Fulton J. Sheen

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue. — Emma Bonino

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. — Doc Hastings

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans. — Ron Wyden

It is the civil jury that really saved the liberties of England. — Alexis De Tocqueville

It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties. — Jeb Bush

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only. — Pablo Picasso

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke

In no instance have ... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison, U.S. President — George Washington

That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties. — Texas Bix Bender

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy. — Ron Paul

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion? — Gerald R. Ford

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. — George Soros

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. — Herman Melville

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties. — Edward Abbey

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J.G. Holland

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. — Ted Cruz

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many. — A.J. Muste

What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith. — Lindsey Graham

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. — Patrick Henry

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods. — Ludwig Borne

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes

The last stop to protect rights and liberties is the Supreme Court. — Dick Durbin

It must never be forgotten ... that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power. — Richard Henry Lee

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left. — William O. Douglas

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. — Abraham Lincoln

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment. — Elizabeth I

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act? — Ras Kass

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people. — Lord George Gordon

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties. — James Monroe

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties. — Frank Lautenberg

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. — Charles De Montesquieu

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home. — Aldis Hodge

Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties. — Patricia O'Hara

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. — Catherine McCormack

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties. — Alexander Hamilton

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country. — Daniel Webster

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools. — Jack Kemp

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it. — Brian Setzer

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. — Michel Foucault

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. — Plutarch

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. — Ann Coulter

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. — Dennis Kucinich

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. — John Milton

Little liberties are great offenses. — Aesop

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home. — Sara Paretsky

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited. — Herbert Spencer

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently. — Trent Lott

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap. — Camille Paglia

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. — Greg Kinnear

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties. — Eliot Engel

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! — Margaret Thatcher

A Socialist State demands precisely the same human symbols as that of Fascist or Nazi, and the same surrender of human liberties if it is to succeed. — Eden Phillpotts

The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty. — Michael Kirby

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing! — Mark Twain

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties. — Jeff Sessions

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. — Charles I Of England

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights. — Jacob Schiff

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media. — Josh Hutcherson

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence. — Thomas Jefferson

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. — Michelangelo Antonioni