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Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

Deregulation is a popular term that's used across the political spectrum. And it's one of these terms like "choice," that corporate interests have used because they know their focus-group buzzword testing makes it sound like a popular word. Because, who can be against deregulation? Being free, having liberty, not having someone tell you what to do, being deregulated, hey, that sounds great. But deregulation is a non sequitur in the realm of media policy or media regulation. The issue is never regulation versus deregulation; our entire system is built on media policies and subsidies.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Discipline must come through liberty.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.

Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.

Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.

Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Communism:  Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.