Liberties Quotes

These liberals are telling me that I should take it easy on the terrorists. They said that our founding fathers would have gone easier on them. They were, after all, for civil liberties. Let me ask you a question: Do you really think that our founding fathers would have put up with any of this shit? I mean, our founding fathers blew peoples` heads off because they put a tax on their morning beverage!

- Dennis Miller

I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh. I think this comes across in my drumming. I watch a lot of The Marx Brothers` movies and they were doing the same sort of things. You`ve seen the way (Chico Marx) plays the piano with that certain flair . . . adding something to the music while taking liberties within his own capabilities? It`s a question of taking somebody else`s music but not sending it up in a derogative sense, just injecting your own personality. (Pete Townshend)`s music allows me to do this.

- Keith Moon

When Tom and I were young we had many liberties. We could stay up and go out later than kids in our age. But I never misused it. I never came back home drunk and threw up at my mother`s feet. - 2005, from an interview for the first biography book about `Tokio Hotel`

- Bill Kaulitz

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

- Bianca Jagger

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn`t just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

- Bianca Jagger

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

- Ann Coulter

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we`d just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

- Jennifer Saunders

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. 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.

- Paul Martin

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.

- Paul Martin

We`re about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we`re going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

- Aaron Sorkin

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

- André Breton

Don`t be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

- Brian Setzer

On his fling with Communism: "What did I care for labor? For racial discrimination? For civil liberties and the war between the classes? Oh, I cared in my own fashion. I cared just enough to embrace these things as props, flailing away night after night at semi-drunken parties."

- Sterling Hayden

We are here to ensure we help the local nationals live and experience the same liberties we have in the United States without being oppressed by terrorists. These Soldiers took an oath to do this duty.

- Mike Lee

The ABA position is that some of these provisions are so invasive of individual liberties that there has to be a sunset provision. They`re offensive, I think, to democracy,

- Michael Greco

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.

- Nancy Pelosi

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

- Thomas Jefferson

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

- Larry Craig

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.

- Adam Schiff

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

- Carol Lewis

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

- John Adams

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

- Michael Korda

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

- John Milton

If you have a focus and a structure and then within it you can play and have some liberties and have good conversation and bring issues to the forefront, then I think it can work.

- Lizz Winstead

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.

- Molly Ivins

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

- Emma Bonino

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people`s civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it`s fiction or non-fiction.

- Iris Chang

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation '“ enlightened as it is '“ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams

- Sam Adams

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

- Adam DePasquale

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

- Ahmet Necdet Sezner

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.

- Aislinn Ryan

We have no higher responsibility to our fellow Americans than protecting the homeland. Our lives, our freedoms, our liberties are at stake.

- Al Siebert

When the public`s right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

- Alan K. Simpson

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

- Alberto Melloni

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.

- Alena Nardinger

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

- Alex Albany

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

- Alex Bean

It is a rank appeal to abandon the fate of all our liberties to the reasonableness of the judgment of those who are trained primarily for war.

- Alex Cheung

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

- Alex Munter

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

- Alexander Nikonov

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.

- Al-Qaeda

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

- Amit Axelrod

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.

- Amr Moussa

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

- Amy Larson

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

- Andrea Domingo

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

- Andrea Hoffman

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

- Andrea Hoffman

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

- Andrew Patel

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

- Andrew Schroepfer

The supreme court stirred up trouble with its recent decision supporting a government ordinance cracking down hard on the press, and it is now time for the Nepalese judicial system to put itself at the forefront of the struggle to ensure respect for the constitution and civil liberties.

- Ann Darrin