#liberties

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. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#american people #downward #each #first #leaders

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world. ↗

— Mark Twain

#bear #liberties #world

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beat #conscience #education #faster #heart

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#explosive #i #i think #issue #liberties

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. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#am #country #duped #exciting #followers

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

— Eliot Engel

#i #i do #keep #killing #liberties

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell L. Wilkie

#hate #liberties #liberty #loss #love

For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#ever #fact #forefront #hate #keep

In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#any #citizens #fellow #fellow citizens #fight

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

— Cory Doctorow

#civil-rights #osama-bin-laden #surveillance #terrorism #war-on-terror