Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Security And Freedom quotes
Security And Freedom
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
Samuel Adams
Politician
"Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"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."
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