Liberties Quotes

• I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Practice
  • Ignore
  • Directors

• The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

  

  Joseph Story
  • Right
  • Arms
  • Republic

• If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Death
  • Liberties
  • Entails

• The issue isn't gun control but state control - obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.

  

  George Jonas
  • Control
  • Gun
  • Liberties

• This important question of the trade-off of civil liberties and protection is one the public takes very seriously.

  

  Andrew Kohut
  • Question
  • Protection
  • Liberties

• Whenever we are attacked, people are willing to give up someone else's liberties for their own security.

  

  Andrew Napolitano
  • Security
  • Liberties
  • Attacked

• Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Idea
  • Independence
  • Liberties

• If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.

  

  Anwar Ibrahim
  • Values
  • Rights
  • Asian

• As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

  

  Ezra Cornell
  • Party
  • Shadow
  • Followers

• National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

  

  Theresa May
  • Government
  • Liberties
  • National Security

• But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Separate
  • Institutions
  • Exercise Of Power

• Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Existence
  • Liberties

• The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Question
  • Crime
  • Liberties

• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

  

  Norman L. Eisen
  • Power
  • Rise
  • Processes

• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

  

  Norman O. Brown
  • Freedom
  • Violence
  • Rules

• Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Constitution
  • Principles
  • Liberties

• We have less civil liberties than we had on 9/ 1 1 in some significant ways. But we are also, I believe, less safe as a result in many instances of the sacrifice in human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law that (the Bush) administration has adopted.

  

  David D. Cole
  • Believe
  • Sacrifice
  • Rights

• We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

  

  Gerald Bard Tjoflat
  • War
  • Terror
  • Over

• Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Respect

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