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It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.

The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers.

A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.