Thursday, May 22, 2008

The Right to Privacy, To Be Let Alone


The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
~United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas~


Hmmmm? . . .



Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?
~Jimmy Durante~

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
~Erwin N. Griswold~


The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
~George Bernard Shaw~


Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.
~Daniel Webster~

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