Quotes on Security And Liberty

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.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

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!

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

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated 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 sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.