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• The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic
  ince it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rule...
• A small difference of opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court in 'Texas v.
  -- Justice William J. Brennan, writing for the majority....
• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.
  ..The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding....
• One senior citizen and one Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
  -- Justice Bart Simpson buys movie tickets, "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie...
• The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that from time to time threaten freedoms everyhere.
  .. Indeed, it is difficult to appreciate how far our freedoms might have eroded had it not been for the Union's valiant representation in the courts of the constitutional rights of people of all persuasions, no matter how unpopular or even despised by the majority they were at the time....
• W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• 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....
• Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself.
  It is a hallmark of an authoritative regime." -- Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewa...
• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
  -- Samuel Chase, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Supreme Court Justice, 1804...