#liberties

We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#air #air force #episode #force #going

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. ↗

— George Soros

#america #because #chose #civil #civil liberties

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. ↗

— Baron de Montesquieu

#day #liberties #lose #may #miss

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

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. ↗

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

#been #characters #dealing #events #fair

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

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#constitution #interfere #liberties #maintained #must

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

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#characterize #civil #civil liberties #democracy #fear

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

— Mark Twain

#bear #liberties #world