A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

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

Benjamin Franklin

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin once said, 'A people who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.' I think we can have both. We can keep our liberties. We can have our security.

Patrick Leahy

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Benjamin Franklin

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?

Epicurus

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

Matthew Dowd

Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?

Rand Paul

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Benjamin Franklin

If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

Epicurus

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

Benjamin Franklin

"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.