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“I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.”

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Author:Richard Posner

“The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.”

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Author:Richard Viguerie

“Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.”

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Author:Saxby Chambliss

“The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.”

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Author:William J. Brennan

“American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.”

“The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.”

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Author:Rick Falkvinge

“Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.”

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Author:Esther Dyson

“Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.”

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Author:Esther Dyson

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

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Book:Commentaries on the Laws of England

Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England

“What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.”

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Author:Robert H. Jackson

“I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.”

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Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.”

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Author:Jack Kemp

“For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.”

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Author:Bob Barr

“The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

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