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“One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.”

“I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.”

Thinking Believe I Believe Freedom Liberty Rights Conditions Media Havens Please Limits Speech Constitution Presses Neighbor Tolerance Privacy Free Speech Nuisance Collide Right To Privacy

Author:H. L. Mencken

“In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.”

“There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.”

Suffering Nations Liberty Privacy Patriot Complacency There Comes A Time Patriot Act Unpatriotic

Author:Rand Paul

“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.”

People Giving Should Trying Liberty Rights Activity Limits Giving Up Criminals Privacy Illegal Not Giving Up Surveillance

Author:Laura Poitras

“There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.”

Ifs Men May Children Persons Dream Hate Liberty Plans Elements Consequence Cease Income Noise Vanity Privacy Popularity Our Dreams Dividends Lurking No Hate

Author:Cyril Connolly

“We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.”

Way Needs Giving Done President Liberty Protect Abuse Terrorist Innocent Privacy Nsa Way Forward

Author:Barack Obama

“I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.”

People Believe Given Liberty Arguing Privacy

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer”

Suffering Liberty Privacy Complacency

Author:Rand Paul

“To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.”

“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.”

Freedom Liberty Rights Tolerance Proportion Privacy Restraint

Book:The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions

Source: The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions

“[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.”

Want Liberty Principles Security Needed Expectations Protection Privacy Excess Identification Personal Liberty

Author:Bill McCollum

“While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the Nation's fundamental law in 1791, what the Framers understood then remains true today - that the task of combating crime and convicting the guilty will in every era seem of such critical and pressing concern that we may be lured by the temptations of expediency into forsaking our commitment to protecting individual liberty and privacy.”

“Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.”

Liberty Security Privacy Plus Intrusion

Author:Bruce Schneier

“When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.”

Thinking Firsts Country Liberty Principles Fundamentals Privacy Amendments Founding First Amendment Civil Liberties Right To Privacy

Author:Tim Cook

“I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, privacy, if we repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, if we get Washington out of the way of job creators, I think we can transform this country.”

“I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.”

Facts Liberty Security Arguing Realms Privacy Rhetoric Opposing Security And Liberty

Author:Edward Snowden