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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of the people who don't like them.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

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