Give Up Freedom For Security Quotes

#1. If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

Frederick Douglass

#8. Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. [T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#10. Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

William Cohen