Security Over Liberty Quotes

#1. A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. [Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

James Madison

#5. 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

#6. Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

#7. 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

#8. We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

David Souter

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The commitment to civil liberty is going to be reasserted strongly. But the concept of liberty is under attack, and our definition of insecurity, security and threats will change fundamentally. The depth of the attack on liberty will be felt painfully.

Ashraf Ghani

#13. Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Hilaire Belloc

#15. Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Benjamin Tucker

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

Harry Browne

#17. It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

Alexander Hamilton