Civil Liberty Quotes

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.