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“In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.”

“Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.”

Should Values Liberty Grateful Threat Be Grateful Threatened Highlights Nadir

Author:David Gemmell

“In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of speech, whether it is freedom of the press, whether it is freedom of association, all of the rights that are enshrined in the First Amendment are threatened by the active, aggressive homosexual lobby and the homosexual agenda.”

“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”

Liberty Institutions Slavery Prosperity Threatened

Book:The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Source: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

“Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.”

Source: A Nation Without a Conscience

“The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.”

Humans Reason Church Race Liberty Rights Lips Human Race Threatened Shipwreck Inalienable Rights

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire