Safety Vs Liberty Quotes

#1. Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Daniel Webster

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

Benjamin Franklin

#3. The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

Charles Kennedy

#4. Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. [We should be] determined ... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government ... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.

Robert E.Lee

#9. Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity ... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Plautus

#11. CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten years of National Assemblies.

Hilary Mantel

#12. Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.

James Madison

#14. The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

Richard Henry Lee

#15. If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished ...

Algernon Sidney