#liberties

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

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#between #book #bridge #certain #creative

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. ↗

— Joe Biden

#achilles heel #civil #civil liberties #heel #liberals

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#difference #god #gods #great #liberties

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

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. ↗

— William S. Cohen

#choose #civil #civil liberties #escalating #intrusive

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#been #conservative #fighters #greater #hungry

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. ↗

— James Madison

#experiment #first #liberties #our #right