#bertie

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

— Theresa May

#civil #civil liberties #committed #duty #erosion

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. ↗

— Ron Paul

#believe #big #big event #crisis #currency

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

#attack #chances #cities #civil #civil liberties

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#free #free spirit #itself #liberties #liberty

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. ↗

— Plutarch

#benefits #destroyer #donations #liberties #people

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#choice #choices #country #faced #hard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#demand #freedom #freedom of speech #how #liberties

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

#been #fantastic #gone #good #had

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

— Potter Stewart

#dichotomy #does #false #liberties #people

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go