“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

“O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.”

“We’ve built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.”

“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness by each individual.”

“Any democratic government, whether threatened by real or perceived enemies, can succumb to Fascism if its people permit the slow or precipitate undoing, by executive or legislative fiat, of their civil liberties.”

“Sex as you like it is an animal right -- no mere civil liberty. Defend it with your beak and claw.”