#bertie

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. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#bill of rights #create #designed #did #framers

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

— Andre Breton

#itself #liberties #liberty #nothing #take

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#been #cases #congress #constitutional #despite

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#none #protected #safe #unless

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. ↗

— James Madison

#churches #guardians #instance #liberties #people

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. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anything #contend #i #i write #kind

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#flanders #holland #liberties #stronger #thus

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#decades #liberties #once #ours #state

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