A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Matthew Dowd

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 are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

Abraham Lincoln

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Gerry Spence

A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom. On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's less well off to become tomorrow's rich, and in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a richer and fuller life.