A Quote by Patrick Leahy

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

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Patrick Leahy
American - Politician
Born: March 31, 1940

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Larry Flynt

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

Benjamin Franklin

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

John Adams

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

Winona LaDuke

Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.

Bob Menendez

I think to leave Europe would be a threat on the one hand to our economic security and on the other our national security.

Nicholas Soames

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

Benjamin Franklin

The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the US is engaged in massive, bulk collection to the tune of 70.3 million telecommunications a month in France of perfectly innocent people. That has nothing to do with protecting the United States, and has nothing to do with really gathering any kind of meaningful intelligence on France. It is an overreach ... and I think the other countries are justifiably outraged .... As one of our founders said: Those who choose between liberty and security deserve neither.

Jesselyn Radack

Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.

John O. Brennan

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