Those Who Would Give Up Liberty Quotes

#1. Way back in 1755 Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." With

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#2. 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

#3. My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Vano Merabishvili

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rand Paul

#6. Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

William Allen White

#7. Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into. -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill

Katherine Applegate

#8. Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!

Colin Mochrie

#9. The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Larry Flynt

#11. I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#12. Space and scarcity give us dignity. And liberty. And thereby beauty.

Edward Abbey

#13. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing
will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.

Patrick Henry

#14. Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#15. Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect - better because they alone give promise of final success.

Ludwig Von Mises

#16. and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His

Jonathan Swift

#17. The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

Jonah Goldberg