Liberty For Security Quotes

#1. Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.

Ron Paul

#3. The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

Rand Paul

#4. I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

Ron Paul

#5. Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. You never want to give up your liberty, even if you are told it is for security. The Patriot Act is a perfect example of giving up liberty for security. It says let us tap your phones so we can keep safe.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

L. Neil Smith

#9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

John Adams

#10. Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

Rand Paul

#11. If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

Ron Paul

#12. How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Rand Paul

#13. Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Security is no replacement for liberty.

Martin Firrell

#15. Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.

James Madison

#16. I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people.

Barack Obama

#17. Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Norman Vincent Peale

#18. For Satan, as for Marx, religion was an impediment to the grand design of transforming humanity from a collection of free-willed, autonomous individuals into a mass of self-corralling slaves who mistake security for liberty and try to keep the cognitive dissonance to a minimum in order to function.

Michael Walsh

#19. Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

Norman Vincent Peale

#20. A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;

Charles Dickens

#21. For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

Todd Tiahrt

#22. Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

Larry Flynt

#23. Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

#24. Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.

Baron De Montesquieu

#25. There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

Edwin Markham

#26. The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.

Samuel Schmid

#27. Benjamin Franklin, that those who trade some of their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. The wisdom of the founders never ceased to amaze him.

Brad Thor

#28. Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

Ron Paul

#29. Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

#30. 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

#31. The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty ... a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

Alexander Hamilton

#32. The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Lysander Spooner

#33. 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

#34. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

#35. For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

#36. There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.

Charley Reese

#37. 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

#38. 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