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“I think that there’s going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.”

Thinking Want Believe Happens I Believe Liberty Rights Balance Civilization Judgment Safety Democratic Protection Debate Civil Liberties Suspension Public Safety Democratic Rights

Author:Barbara Lee

“That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.”

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“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.”

Happens Night Nations Liberty Sun Presses Destroyed Despotism

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.”

Ifs Happens Sex Women Liberty Virtue Wise Crime Reader Lucky Good Things Denied Forbidden Being Wise

Author:Marie de Gournay

“Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.”

Happens Liberty Cases Danger Lows Standards Trade Wit Things Happen Remedy Commerce Restriction Port Imposition Embargo

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.”

Ifs Way Believe Sometimes Happens Would Be Born Liberty Exercise Chains Preserves Coercion Emperor Forging Born Free

Book:The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

“Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.”

Ideas Country Hard Happens Individual Responsibility Liberty Sells Individual Liberty

Author:Rush Limbaugh