Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pret...

Ron Paul

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Frances Wright

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, a...

Jose Rizal

Link Appleyard: As long as he behaves himself in this town, I ain't got no, ah... Ransom Stoddard: Jurisdiction. Link Appleyard: What he said is right. I ain't got none of it.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try...

Salman Rushdie

Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.

How Civilizations Die

Writing: It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako

Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

Siren's Lament and Other Stories

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The Practice of the Wild: Essays

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Nick Nolte

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Paddy Ashdown

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Claude Nicollier

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Anson Mount

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

Claire McCaskill

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

Constance Baker Motley

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

Gary Johnson

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

George P. Shultz

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

James A. Garfield

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

Janine di Giovanni

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

James F. Cooper