Security And Freedom Quotes:

I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.

- Matt Blaze

topic: Believe, Light, Security And Freedom, Inconsistent, Cryptography

Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.

- Benjamin Barber

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Spring, Mean, Security And Freedom, Arab Spring

Some people say that parents don't matter, and that's not true at all. The irony is that we pay attention to all these things that don't matter, and not to what does matter, such as parents having enough resources to provide an environment where their children have both security and freedom.

- Alison Gopnik

source: Interview with Jessica Zack, www.sfgate.com. September 29, 2016.

topic: Children, Security And Freedom, People

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

- George W. Bush

topic: Thinking, Security And Freedom, Decision, Peace And Security, Noble Causes

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press

topic: Eye, Thinking, Security And Freedom, Earthly Possessions

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines, Medical Care, Lacking Something

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Funny 4th Of July, Security And Freedom

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Social Democracy, Power Corruption

We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them to their ruin. In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security and a comfortable life; and they lost all-comfort and security and freedom.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Greek, World, Ruins, Comfortable Life, Barbaric

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

- C. S. Lewis

source: "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

topic: Wisdom, Freedom, Sleep, Busybodies, Moralizing

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Peace, War, Tyrants, Busybodies, Limited Freedom

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

- Louis D. Brandeis

source: Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

topic: Freedom, Men, Evil, Beneficence, Lurking

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

- Patrick Henry

topic: Sweet, Freedom, Business, American Revolution, Individual Liberty

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Freedom, Government, Liberty, Liberty And Equality, Liberty Of Speech

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

- Daniel Webster

source: Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings”, p.30

topic: Mean, Men, Promise, Limited Government, Pro Gun

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

topic: Strength, Peace, Children, Independence And Freedom, Inspirational Freedom

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

- Edmund Burke

source: Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

topic: Wisdom, Giving Up, Freedom, Liberty And Equality, Civil Liberties

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: People, Liberty, Trade, Security And Freedom

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

- Dick Cheney

source: "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

topic: Taken, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Freedom, Expression, Essentials, Freedom Of Expression, Human Freedom

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

- Mark Twain

topic: Thank You, Memorial Day, Courage, Independence Day Patriotic, Inspirational Patriotic

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

- Patrick Henry

source: Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

topic: Freedom, Jealous, Blessing, Individual Liberty, Guards Up

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

- Louis D. Brandeis

topic: Government, Liberty, Purpose, Justice Truth, Law Courts

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

- Samuel Adams

source: Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

topic: Love, Freedom, Patriotic, American Revolution, Servitude

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Richard Jackson, Benjamin Franklin (1759). “An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania: From Its Origin, So Far as Regards the Several Points of Controversy, which Have, from Time to Time, Arisen Between the Several Governors of that Province, and Their Several Assemblies : Founded on Authentic Documents”, p.7

topic: Security And Freedom

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Approval, Ends, Torment, Busybodies, Limited Freedom

Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Believe, Heart, Opposites, Clutch, Security And Freedom

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

- James Madison

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.46

topic: Freedom, Democracies Have, Rights, Factions, Individual Rights

Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Lying, Believe, Son, Security And Freedom

Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.

- Penn Jillette

source: Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

topic: Mean, Differences, Goal, Security And Freedom, Small Differences

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: May, Moral, Busybodies, Omnipotent, Robber Baron

Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

- Preston Manning

source: "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

topic: Religious, Commitment, Home, Security And Freedom

The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

topic: Compassion, People, Needs, Bodhisattva, Security And Freedom

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

- Abdallah II

source: Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

topic: Children, Offering, Views, Security And Freedom