Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Daniel Webster

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Benjamin Rush

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

Bill Shuster

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

John Lothrop Motley

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.

Jonathan Mayhew

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Honore de Balzac

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Anne Baxter

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

Algernon Sidney

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

Virginia Foxx

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Vladimir Lenin

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

William Dean Howells

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