A Quote by John Adams

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

John Adams

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Liberty Neither Security Those Trade

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John Adams
American - President
October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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 prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.

Thomas Jefferson

Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed.

Adam Smith

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

Rand Paul

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.