Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow or even the alteration of the existing social order but the preservation of political liberty threatened ...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched p...

The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom

I know not what discoveries, what inventions, what thoughts may leap from the brain of the world. I know not what garments of glory may be woven by the years to come. I cannot dream of the victories to be won upon the fields of thought; .

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. (A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to co...

Ron Paul

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have...

Jose Rizal

Gun control impinges upon the Second Amendment; involuntary commitment impinges upon the liberty clause of the Fifth Amendment; curbing 'entertainment' violence impinges upon First Amendment free speech. That's a lot of impingement, a lot of amendmen...

Charles Krauthammer

Guard at Liberty Gate: [after catching James coming back into the camp after having snuck out] What the fuck are you doing? Staff Sergeant William James: Visiting a whorehouse. Guard at Liberty Gate: Okay. If I let you in, will you tell me where it i...

The Hurt Locker

Doc Willoughby: [very drunk] My advice to you as uh... Dutton Peabody: Coroner. Doc Willoughby: and uh your personal phys... Dutton Peabody: Physician! Doc Willoughby: is to get your supper and go to bed. No charge.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Hallie: One steak for Mr. Peabody, with fixins'. Nora Ericson: Steak, beans, potatoes... Peter Ericson: And a deep dish apple pie. Nora Ericson: Someday he order something different and we all faint dead away.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you a...

Tobias Wolff

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought ag...

William O. Douglas

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

John Wayne

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

A Civil Campaign

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Civilization and Its Discontents

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

Gone

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

To America with Love