We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

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.

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558