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With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.