I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
This country is worth dying for.
Interview Glenn Greenwald, 06.06.2013
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
via reddit, 21.05.2015
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded.
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I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.
Michael: "Don't forget my North Carolina shorts!"
Daffy: "Your shorts? From college?"
Michael: "I wore them under my Chicago Bulls uniform every game."
Looney Tunes: "Eeeew."
Michael: "I washed them after every game."
Daffy: "Hahaha... sure!"
Daffy: "Your shorts? From college?"
Michael: "I wore them under my Chicago Bulls uniform every game."
Looney Tunes: "Eeeew."
Michael: "I washed them after every game."
Daffy: "Hahaha... sure!"
They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to North Carolina - and that's pretty much the same thing.
This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
William Wallace in Braveheart
10It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
9It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?
Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness
8Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.
People think it's their cell phone that's expensive. Wrong. The value is in the information they keep inside it.
Alex Gúzman in Who Killed Sara? - Season 1 Episode 2
As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.
If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.
You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.
If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't worry. This was for your own good."
Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.
Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?
Bryan Bedford in Miracle on 34th Street
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.
Nelson Mandela - 05.12.2013
3My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.
Barack Obama - Inauguration Speech, 21st January 2013
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.
Barack Obama - Inauguration Speech, 21st January 2013
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.
This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.
Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5
3We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew - 7,12
9Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.