Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Theresa May

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

Joe Biden

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

Larry Craig

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

Saxby Chambliss

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

Esther Dyson

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Betty Hill

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

Ann Coulter

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

George Soros

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Adam Schiff

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state i...

Nick Clegg

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

Patricia Hewitt

I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents.

Gary Johnson

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for ...

Niger Innis

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.

James McGreevey

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

William Graham Sumner

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

Frances Wright

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

Josiah Strong

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

America has learned what our repressive and terrorist adversaries do not understand: that liberty without law is anarchy, liberty to defy law is rebellion, but liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.

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