National Security Letters

Famous quotes containing the words national, security and/or letters:

    “I came here for one thing only, to try to help national Ireland—and if there is no such thing in existence then the sooner I pay for my illusions the better.”
    —Roger Casement (1864–1916)

    “There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.”
    —Demosthenes (c. 384–322 B.C.)

    “There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)