It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.