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• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
  They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...
• The Freedom Line - Where are all our POW's?
• Our Constitution is color-blind. The arbitrary separation of citizens, on the basis of race.
  .. is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with civil freedom....
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• The men and women who founded our country knew, by experience, that there are times when the free person's answer to oppressive government has to be delivered with a bullet.
  Thus, the right to bear arms is not just *a* freedom...
• All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
  -- Shelley...
• If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
  -- Samuel Adam...
• Our country is the world; our countrymen are all mankind.
  -- William Lloyd Garrison (1804-1879) -- Prospectus of the Liberator, Dec. 15, 1837...
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
  -- Kipling...