A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

Louis Freeh

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

Ron Paul

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

Swami Vivekananda

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.

Benjamin Franklin

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.