A Quote by Ronald Reagan

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan
American - President
February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004

Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.

Adyashanti

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles Sumner

[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

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

Benjamin Franklin

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

Larry Niven

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

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Karl Popper

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Karl Popper

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

Eugen Richter

"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.

Zygmunt Bauman

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.

Rajneesh

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

Gerry Spence

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.