Andrew Paolo Napolitano Quotes

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

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

If we give up all our privacy rights, have we become any safer?

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

We give up our liberties too casually [in emergencies and crises]

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.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

I am a passionate civil libertarian.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Privacy, in my point of view, is a civil liberty that our Founding Fathers thought of a long time ago and concluded ... was an essential part of what it was to be an American.

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.

There is no security in the profered system, either for the rights of conscience or the liberty of the Press.

We encounter the dilemma of freedom versus authority in all sorts of places but probably nowhere more frequently than in the area of Big Brother's ongoing efforts to protect us from ourselves – efforts that many people view as an invasion of their privacy or as infringement upon their God-given right to be stupid (though they don't usually put it that way).

Although the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment may benefit society generally, or communities in particular, we don't condition those freedoms on whether how we use them benefits anyone.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear.