It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

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

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

That is a fair summary of the problem, ... and it came from Senator Joseph Lieberman.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.