Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not plac...

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof is the least we can expect before we accept a government restriction of liberty as legitimate.

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Starship Troopers

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable h...

Edmund Burke

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the mos...

James Madison

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their for...

Cornel West

Ransom Stoddard: [in Stoddard's classroom] How you feeling this morning? Link Appleyard: Just fine, fine, fine. Ransom Stoddard: Your head cold? Link Appleyard: Uh, no, no. I uh. [sheepishly removes hat]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit ...

William Jennings Bryan

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

A Civil Campaign

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

A Civil Campaign

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

A Civil Campaign

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

A Civil Campaign

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Henry Louis Gates

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.

Cary Fukunaga

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

Les Misérables

The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.

Split... Civility For A Divided Nation

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Philip Pullman