I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

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.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

The true love is unconditional.Marriage is a conditional bond.

I have nothing to lose, only to live.

The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.'

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

I'm happy and I have a great life.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper.