Voices - Civil Liberties vs. Security
"Security
against war, against accidents, and against want was an objective that
could not be pursued effectively without restricting freedom in the spheres
of political, economic, and perhaps even eventually domestic life. "
- Arnold Toynbee
1956
"A
grave responsibility confronts this court whenever...it must reconcile
the conflicting claims of liberty and authority. But when the liberty
invoked is the liberty of conscience, and the authority is authority to
safeguard the nations fellowship, judicial conscience is put to the severest
test."
-
Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1940
