Jacob Rees-Mogg Quotes

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

The commitment to civil liberty is going to be reasserted strongly. But the concept of liberty is under attack, and our definition of insecurity, security and threats will change fundamentally. The depth of the attack on liberty will be felt painfully.

We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over.

I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

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

On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities.

Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

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

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.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins.

A civil libertarian today in Washington is a conservative whose friends have been indicted.

The Habeas Corpus Act is the most stringent curb that ever legislation imposed on tyranny.

The national emergency no longer justifies abrogation of individual rights of Habeas Corpus and trial by jury on definite charges.

When people think of the American Identity, they don’t think of torture, they don’t think of illegal wiretapping … or many of the other things that have been happening in the last 6 years…. Singers are like the canary in the coal mine. When things are happening, they must be sung out.

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

It has been held, right up to the present day, that the freedom of individual must take second place to the security of the State.....

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

We are mourning the death of rule of law in Uganda.

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.