“Public security bureaus across the country received more than 200,000 letters and visits from citizens who had grievances to air during the four months, and 180,000 of them have been dealt with.”
Wu Heping
“The fact that Congress wasn't aware that the FBI has used some 30,000 national security letters over the past few years is an indication that not enough oversight has been done. The money-laundering sections of the Patriot Act require scores of businesses to track the transactions of their customers and report to the government. It's an aspect of the Patriot Act that doesn't get much attention, but it should. This has huge implications for people's privacy.”
Tim Lynch
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”
Liz Carpenter
“This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment”
Katherine Mansfield
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.”
William Faulkner
“In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.”
Knut Hamsun
