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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.
I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.
I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they were doing.
The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States
But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.
It is every American's right to question any big event, especially when it's seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans.
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.
I believe in strong civil liberties and a government that intervenes if and only if there is a structural failure that private actions generally cannot solve.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.
The men and women of the Greatest Generation answered the call to serve; whether at home or abroad, they defended the freedoms and liberties we enjoy today.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'
If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.
Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
Installing an activist liberal majority on the Supreme Court will put religious liberties at risk for generations to come.
Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?
After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.
What are we fighting the terrorists for if we ourselves do not even stand up for democracy - civil liberties and fundamental rights - which includes independence of the judiciary?
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.
Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?
What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith.
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.
The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.
The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep it that way.
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.
Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.
