The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them