“To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.” SecretLibertySellsBetraySecrecy Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.” PeopleIfsWayHas BeensCountryStatesGovernmentLeftStarsInterestUnitedSecretLibertyEnemyUnited StatesImagineFashionSurrenderCorporationsOfficialsSouthernChamberInvasionCountyPrecipiceMultinationalsAuctionsMultinational Corporations Book:Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession
“Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.” MenSoulMatterCan DoSecretLibertyKingsHandle Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.” IfsStatesUseGovernmentLawGrowthCan DoAbilitySecretLibertyTechnologyNovelClearGenerationsSecurityRegretUniqueCourtTreasureReformCombinationDigitalInterpretationPlusUnusualExpandingExclusiveSurveillanceOur GenerationDigital TechnologySurveillance StateSecurity And Liberty Author:Ron Wyden
“Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.” MayLongImportantSecretLibertyHighestEnglandRemainsSacredPrivilegeTrialsGuardianBeneficialJurySapTrial By Jury Author:William Blackstone
“And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure.” MindMadeSoulSeemsNightLeftStrongSecretLibertyDarknessComfortPleasePureWorthyDestroyedSelfishnessUselessContemptAbandonment Author:Thomas Merton
“I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.” MenSecretLibertyBlessingOceanPoliceSeekingWitAgentsContinentsMatchedFugitiveGreatest BlessingsSecret Agent Book:Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography Source: Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography