NYT: Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For

[Ryan Carboni]

The pinnacle of Jeffersonian democracy is when every man aspires to
commit treason. His Empire of Liberty idea was not so great.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned
from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts,
pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or
two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.