Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

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.

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 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.

The open-ended nature of the struggle against it means that the war on terrorism, unlike conventional wars, cannot be viewed as a passing emergency. That fact has important implications for the debate about how much liberty we should give up so the government can fight terrorism more effectively. Since there’s now way of knowing when the war is over – no territory to occupy, no surrender to accept – any sacrifices we make are likely to be permanent.

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

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.

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

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.

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

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

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

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

Security is no replacement for liberty.

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.

Even if a person is doing nothing wrong, in a free society, that person shouldn’t have to justify every action that government officials might view as suspicious. A key component of freedom is not having to worry about how to explain oneself all the time.