“We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.” CountryCompanyLibertySuccessfulRiskEducatedIllegalEngagingFoolhardy Author:Preet Bharara
“The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.” DoeEndsUseFeelingsLawUsedTurnsLibertyPoliceMethodCriminalsIllegalRootedConfessionInherentInvoluntaryConvictsAbhorrence Author:Earl Warren
“There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance. But everybody should not give up their liberties and rights to privacy because some people are going to [do that]. We shouldn't stop or limit our basic liberties because some people are going to engage in criminal activities.” PeopleGivingShouldTryingLibertyRightsActivityLimitsGiving UpCriminalsPrivacyIllegalNot Giving UpSurveillance Author:Laura Poitras
“The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.” ThinkingKindLibertyRightsSacrificeSecurityCrimeSolutionsThreatImmigrationAll KindsCommunismErasImpulseAbortionIllegalFrightenedPornographyIllegal Immigration Author:Molly Ivins
“This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.” MeanWarLawChoicesLibertySecurityCrimeCitizensDemandLettersAdministrationWho We AreProtestIllegalCherishNational SecuritySpyWireNsaAmerican CitizensInconvenientMisguidedTappingTracking Author:Barack Obama
“Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.” NationsLibertyDebtImmigrationInsaneCrushPushingIllegalTerritoryRegulationUnemploymentCrossroadsStaggeringIllegal ImmigrationNational Debt Author:James Lankford