A Quote by Matthew Dowd

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

Matthew Dowd

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Deserve Freedom Get Give Neither Security Up

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Matthew Dowd
Born: May 29, 1961

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom 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

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

Larry Flynt

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Benjamin Franklin

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edward Gibbon

[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.

Margaret Thatcher

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

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

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Gerry Spence

[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.