“If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.”
![“I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f3/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_assange_i-know-he-julian-assange-is-a-man-of-fie_1621360.jpg)
