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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson
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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Henri Frederic Amiel
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In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

James Madison
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Patrick Henry
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The war on our civil liberties is actually begun. There's a price to be paid for independence. But I ask you, what price-- liberty?

Rep. Neal Kurk
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The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Ludwig Borne
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Nancy Pelosi
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I'm not really surprised by this, ... It's just another case of our university not respecting our civil liberties.

Chuck Mitchell
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This is unquestionably an issue of infringement upon civil liberties.

Barry Steinhardt
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We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

Jeff Sessions
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This is very important. Israel is a democratic nation and we must maintain those civil liberties. They apply even to terrorists when they are caught. And Israeli courts strictly enforce those civil liberties.

Ron Habler
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For a country that prides itself on due process and civil liberties, it's just indefensible.

Anthony D. Romero
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We cannot allow anybody to experiment with our liberties.

Rene Saguisag
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There are a lot of liberty issues. I'm not sure these things are going to make us any safer and they have the potential to infringe on civil liberties.

Beth Wilson
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We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Adam Schiff
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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

William Lloyd Garrison
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Civil liberties are more important than this terrorism thing they're trying to sell us.

Tom Hoffman
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Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Joseph Sobran
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The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

Potter Stewart
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Civil liberties groups, conservative groups, immigration groups ? we've all been saying that Real ID will be a real disaster and needs to be revisited by Congress.

Allen Gilbert
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton
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I think people are always in favor of civil liberties in the abstract. But in specific cases, they're more free to barter those freedoms away.

Neil Richards
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Only communist China could take away civil liberties and get away with it.

Laurie Garrett
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The Anti-American Criminal Liberties Union.

Mark Hyman
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There are very conservative libertarian Republicans who agree with liberal Democrats that you have to pay attention to civil liberties and balance that with national security. That's very tough to do.

Gloria Borger
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Those American Civil Liberties Union persons up there are not concerned about me at all. So they are not really the American Civil Liberties Union are they? Because they don't give a darn about what has happened to my constitutional rights to property.

Pat King
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If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

Marquis De Lafayette
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But there is potential serious collateral damage to our Constitution and civil liberties in the attorney general's bill.

Jerry Berman
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From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer.

Alan Davidson
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We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Robert H. Jackson
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Here, there is no ideological counter [to Chavez] ... and if we don't provide that, we'll lose our individual liberties. If we don't change the system of this country, we're going into the abyss.

Nestor Suarez
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As with the issue of censorship, while we understand the seriousness of the crisis that Sri Lanka faces, we call on the government to avoid restrictions of civil liberties.

Philip Reeker
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It is a rank appeal to abandon the fate of all our liberties to the reasonableness of the judgment of those who are trained primarily for war.

Frank Murphy
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The administration is claiming extraordinary presidential powers at the expense of civil liberties and is putting the president above the law.

Caroline Fredrickson
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Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

William S. Cohen
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Francis Picabia
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Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Saxby Chambliss
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Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Lawrence Wilkerson
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I'm sure it's going to create an incredible stir from the civil liberties groups. (And) I'm sure it's going to create some discomfort among some teachers.

Linda Grubba
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We know we take liberties in that regard, but CTU clearly is a very efficient and effective (agency). And we're frankly honored and lucky to be working with them.

Evan Katz
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