Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time?

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 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.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

What could be more encouraging than realizing that Jesus calls the unqualified?

Live spiritually and you’ll be fine.

I’ve suppressed my aspirations to forget all rationality and let the moment explain everything, for nothing to be said and everything understood. If only I knew how to let these feelings out.

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.