#bertie

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What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.


Elbridge Gerry


#army #attempt #bane #destroy #establishment

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.


Patricia Hewitt


#civil #civil liberties #compulsory #concerns #every

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.


William Weld


#functions #government #just #liberties #our

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.


Frances Wright


#exert #expense #injury #justly #liberties

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.


Bill Shuster


#everyday #flag #liberties #represents #values

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.


John Quincy Adams


#arbitrary #arbitrary power #bud #ever #liberties

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.


Alan K. Simpson


#american people #downward #each #first #leaders

The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . . . . . Whether you like it or not.


Daniel Keys Moran


#data #digital-liberty #digital-rights #information #internet

You must be mistaking me for someone else with silver hair.


Lisa Mantchev


#humor #silver #humor

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.


Mark Twain


#bear #liberties #world