Quotes About Privacy

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

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

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Saying 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 freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

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

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.

Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

When you mind your own business you will never get caught up in all the nonsense.

Private lives are more important than public reputations.