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  • 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!

    Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.
  • For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.

  • 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.

    Freedom   Men   Slave  
    John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”
  • Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

  • 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!

    Love   Peace   Freedom  
    Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.
  • 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.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.34
  • The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

    Names   Causes   Tyranny  
  • the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

    Freedom   Men   Average  
  • The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

    "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.
  • [In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe they, at length, become willing to run the risk of being less free.

    Running   War   Rights  
    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

    Peace   War   Patriotic  
    Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.
  • Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both, and we can if we try, we have failed.

    "Senate Resoundingly Renews Patriot Act" by Joel Roberts, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2006.
  • I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

    Liberty   Facts   Arguing  
    Source: www.nesta.org.uk
  • I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

    Letter to Archibald Stewart, 23 Dec. 1791
  • Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

    Running   Powerful   War  
    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.38, Coventry House Publishing
  • In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

    Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961
  • 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!

    Death   Sweet   Freedom  
    Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.
  • 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.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.46
  • Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

    Wisdom   Peace   Freedom  
    Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961
  • They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

    Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270
  • Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

    Peace   War   Home  
    Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.
  • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

    Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784
  • Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.172, Knopf
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