A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

L. Neil Smith

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.