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«America is committed to seeing civil liberties protected as a shield for freedom-loving people, not as a sword for freedom-loathing people.»
«Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty»
Author: Samuel Adams
(Politician)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
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«Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some»
Author: Tom Tomorrow
| About:
Civil rights
| Keywords:
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«The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
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«Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.»
Author: William Graham Sumner
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«Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.»
Author: Ann Coulter
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«If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
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«A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
civil liberties, civil liberty, dictatorship, extend, groups, liberties, preferred, the left
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Freedom
| Keywords:
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