Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

Clarence Darrow

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

Mustafa Akyol

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Molly Ivins

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

John Randolph

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Nick Rahall

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

Mark McKinnon

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Daniel Webster

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Joseph Hall

Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear what you KNOW!

Faith Brashear

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

George William Curtis

The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

Catherine McCormack

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Charles de Montesquieu

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke