The best Quotes by Edward Snowden

The best Quotes by Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a United States and naturalized Russian citizen who was a computer intelligence consultant and whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Interview Glenn Greenwald, 06.06.2013

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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

Freedom Privacy & Data

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded.

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This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

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People learn to love their chains.

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Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

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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!

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Freedom War Speeches

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

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It 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?

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Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.

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People think it's their cell phone that's expensive. Wrong. The value is in the information they keep inside it.

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As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.

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If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

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You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

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If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't worry. This was for your own good."

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

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Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

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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.

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Duty Last Words 2013

My 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

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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.

Nelson Mandela

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This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

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We 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.

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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

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So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

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