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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

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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

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I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. ↗

— William H. Wharton

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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

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We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. ↗

— Robert Jackson

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

— John Milton

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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.

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

— Andre Breton

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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

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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

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