Quotes About Freedom Benjamin Franklin

#1. Those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics ... derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

#8. I think I'd been lost in her the second I pulled the wool cap over her adorably rumpled bed head on our first run.

Christina Lauren

#9. LUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck. And your lips. I need to spend more time staring at them and less time tasting them.
ME: I can't say i agree with that notion.
LUCAS: More of both, then.

Tammara Webber

#10. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

Benjamin Franklin

#12. The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Wendy Goerl

#14. In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.

Chris Jericho

#15. Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

#18. A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#19. In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Benjamin Franklin

#20. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

Benjamin Franklin

#22. The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

#23. They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755

Benjamin Franklin

#24. That's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel ...

John Geddes

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

Benjamin Franklin

#26. Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#27. If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.

Benjamin Franklin

#28. The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

#30. I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

Fred B. Craddock

#31. Anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

Dora Russell

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

Benjamin Franklin

#33. I don't know if you heard, but I kind of run this place.

Ilona Andrews

#34. If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

#35. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Benjamin Franklin