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The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States
 John Ashcroft

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
 John Ashcroft
The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them
 John Ashcroft
An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
 John Ashcroft
By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.
 John Ashcroft
Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.
 John Ashcroft