Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

Paul Harris

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over w...

Sharron Angle

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Sonny Perdue

Too many of us view liberty as something that ‘just is,’ and too few see it as something that ‘is’ only because someone, somewhere was faced with the formidable reality that to keep liberty meant paying a stiff price.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes ...

Grover Norquist

[first lines] Ransom Stoddard: [descending from railway carriage and consulting pocket watch] Thanks, Jason. On time.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

B. R. Ambedkar

The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask...

Charles M. Blow

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

Joseph Wambaugh

I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.

Kurt Vonnegut

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

Jack Scalia

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Constance Baker Motley

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

John Lydon

Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.

Gil A. Waters

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

John Milius

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Mike Schmidt

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Francois Fenelon

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Tina Brown

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Jon Voight

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes...

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