Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

Samuel Adams

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Middlesex

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Herbert Marcuse

The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?

Pat Schroeder

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Susan Sontag

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Simone Weil

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Langston Hughes

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Lucretia Mott

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.

Rupertus Meldenius

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.

Michel Templet

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Emily Greene Balch

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.

Jo Ann Davis

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

John Linder

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

Mitch McConnell

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Ron Paul

The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.

Sharron Angle

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Locke

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

I like to say 'Reign' is the '24' of the pre-Renaissance. I think we're going to take a lot of liberties with history, as well as extend it over a longer period of time.

Megan Follows

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

Nathaniel Branden