Quico Canseco Quotes

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

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 right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

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

Benjamin Franklin once said, 'A people who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.' I think we can have both. We can keep our liberties. We can have our security.

Certainly I support the Constitution, and I respect people's privacy, but I also think we need to err on the side of protecting us.

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.

It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Liberty comes only after security.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

I care a lot about privacy. I also care an awful lot about public safety. There continues to be a huge collision between those two things we care about.