Jon Corzine Quotes

We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation.

How far are we to go in pursuit of greater security at the cost of essential liberties?

You cannot control a free society by force.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

Liberty comes only after security.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

The free society tolerates those within it who would use that freedom to destroy it.

There has been much said about danger to the national security. Democracy itself is a dangerous form of government and in its very danger lies its strength. The protection of individual rights by the requirement of due process of law, which has long endured in this nation of ours, is a radical and dangerous idea in most of the world today.

We live now in the freeist time in the freeist country.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must he the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

The issue of wiretapping raises the issue of the balance between human liberty and the requirements of national security. I would say that the weight should be on the side of human liberty and that if human liberty is ever to be infringed, the demonstration on the national security side must be overwhelming.

It doesn’t keep us safe and it doesn’t keep us free if we give up our liberties to the government.

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended from abroad.