Top 100 Freedom Security Quotes
#1. Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#2. Freedom, security, convenience - choose two
Dan Geer
#3. The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.
Peter DeFazio
#4. If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names."
"Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?"
"Freedom, security, retribution.
Leigh Bardugo
#5. The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
Tarja Halonen
#6. Let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.
Kofi Annan
#7. We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.
Ronald Reagan
#8. Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#9. Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.
George W. Bush
#10. Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.
Nelson Mandela
#11. Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.
Benjamin Barber
#12. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
#13. Her ambitions were no longer specifically for happiness or financial security or freedom from disease (thought they included all three), but for something more general: the continuing certainty of things. She needed to know that she would carry on being herself.
Julian Barnes
#14. The true source of economic security is self-reliance and economic freedom - Social Security is immoral because it subverts both.
Don Watkins
#15. For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
Zell Miller
#16. The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
Mark Steyn
#17. If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
(History Will Teach Us Nothing)
Sting
#18. The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
Mark Udall
#19. The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.
Misha Glenny
#20. IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.
Theodore Dalrymple
#21. I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'
Bartlett Sher
#22. People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
Benjamin Franklin
#23. The dictator says "You are allowed to think as you want" but never write it down or talk about it. If you cross these borders we cannot guarantee your security
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#24. National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.
Ralph Nader
#25. If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
Margaret Atwood
#26. Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.
Ann Aguirre
#27. Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. By
Adam M. Grant
#28. The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#29. Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
Abraham Lincoln
#30. To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.
Bruce Lee
#31. The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
Benjamin Franklin
#32. We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.
Bryant McGill
#33. The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
Christopher Hitchens
#34. In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of prosperity through an exchange of resources, the reality of freedom through the free movement of information, persons and ideas.
Antoine Pinay
#35. The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.
Fulton J. Sheen
#36. For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.
Russell Shorto
#37. No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.
Donella Meadows
#38. Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Benjamin Franklin
#39. Both kinds of parenting, finally, are forms of overidentification. The helicopter parent turns the child into an instrument of her will. The overindulgent parent projects his own need for limitless freedom and security. In either case, the child is made to function as an extension of somebody else.
William Deresiewicz
#40. True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#41. If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#42. USA Freedom Actdid, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other law - and other intelligence agencies to quickly and rapidly access phone records and match them up with other phone records to see who terrorists have been calling.
Marco Rubio
#44. open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for 'security'.
Tony Judt
#45. A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.
Benjamin Franklin
#46. Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
Henry David Thoreau
#47. There is no security without freedom.
J.R. Rim
#48. May it be to the world ... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Thomas Jefferson
#49. I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
Kangana Ranaut
#50. The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and exciting inventions - and creating jobs along the way - have the freedom and security to keep innovating.
Todd Park
#51. He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#52. Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.
James Madison
#53. Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism ... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
Bernadette Devlin
#54. In Christ's grace, there is freedom to be honest and transparent. When we embrace that security and freedom, then we end up pointing others to the only Source of healing and forgiveness.
Matt Chandler
#55. Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.
Douglas Feith
#56. We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
Karl Popper
#57. I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.
Julian Lennon
#58. Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
Herbert Hoover
#59. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
Tony Blair
#60. Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
Rand Paul
#61. Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#62. It is the government's job to increase both freedom and security.
Timothy Snyder
#63. Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.
Sieg Pedde
#64. For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#66. When security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravest
threat to it.
Friedrich Hayek
#67. We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.
Auliq Ice
#68. I oppose registration for the draft ... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.
Ronald Reagan
#69. Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.
Thomas Paine
#70. Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
Hannah More
#71. People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both
Benjamin Franklin
#72. Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
#73. The precondition to freedom is security.
Rand Beers
#74. Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
Joe Lieberman
#75. The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.
Larry Niven
#76. Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
Najib Mikati
#77. The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.
Robert Kiyosaki
#79. Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
Adlai Stevenson I
#80. Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#81. Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence
words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security
there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.
Howard Zinn
#82. One would think that having grown up broke would make one desperate for financial stability, eager to rest in the economic security of a good job. Rather, it gave me the freedom to take chances. I knew how to get by on next to nothing.
Michelle Tea
#83. In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
Edward Gibbon
#84. Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#85. Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.
Preston Manning
#86. Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade.
Leonard Read
#87. Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
Henry Steele Commager
#88. Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.
James Madison
#89. Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#90. However you define success - a happy family, good friends, a satisfying career, robust health, financial security, the freedom to pursue your passions - it tends to be accompanied by a couple of qualities.
Roy F. Baumeister
#91. People believe that through the American way of life they can work together to encourage wider ownership of economic activities. In this way, they believe they can develop an economy of abundance which will provide a maximum of security and freedom.
Murray D. Lincoln
#92. One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
Lyn Nofziger
#93. By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
Natan Sharansky
#94. If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
Will Durant
#95. Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#96. This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
Jim Walsh
#97. Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.
Deepak Chopra
#98. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam Smith
#99. Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [ ... ] and the like.
William O. Douglas
#100. If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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