Civil Liberties Quotes

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Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

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.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.

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 look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

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.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

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

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.

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

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without firing another shot.

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.

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.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.