Top 1200 Civil Liberties Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have freedoms and liberties and women in the workplace and a whole list of ephemera that have nothing to do with this war at all.

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two minutes of your time and it's alright. I don't like people taking liberties when I'm with my family, but mostly people are really polite and that's lovely.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations and abuses that might be warranted by the terms of the Constitution. It must never be forgotten, however, that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government, as by the limitation of power.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

When it is real person, especially who means so much to millions of people, you have an obligation, you cannot take liberties, you cannot pretend to know. But we are telling the love story of Michael Aris and his wife, the story of a beautiful, lush country, and the emotions of a mother.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

We [Israel] already have two very strong democratic tools - the two basic laws of personal liberties and human rights. I think we should also provide the judiciary with another tool so that they can rely on the fact that Israel is a Jewish state in verdicts.

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security.

After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of the people who don't like them.

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.