They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

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If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

David Sedaris

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I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]

Louis D. Brandeis

Tags: liberty freedom government civil-rights privacy encroachment policy



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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Anthony Burgess

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Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.

James Madison

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Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like.

William O. Douglas

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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

Chuck Palahniuk

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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."

[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]

William O. Douglas

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