Saxby Chambliss Quotes

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

In all questions between a government and an individual the presumption in every Englishman's mind is that the government is in the wrong.

It is ingrained into our national life that the rule of law makes us free.

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.

We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the expense of our civil liberties and the basic tenets of our legal system.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

I have a right to nothing, which another has a right to take away; and Congress will have a right to take away trials by jury in civil cases. Let me add, that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth.

It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad

Freedom of the press and of religious opinion should be inviolate.

Unless the courts have the power to review the legislative and executive decisions of the nation, we do not have the rule of law… If we don’t follow our own rules, our own Constitution, then, my God, what are we fighting for?

The Bill of Rights

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights ... at the school house door.

Law enforcement, however, in defeating the criminal, must maintain inviolate the historic liberties of the individual.

Political liberty is good only so far as it produces private liberty.