Georges Bidault Quotes

Security is no replacement for liberty.

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

The people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.

Whenever you hear, “it’s for your own good” from the government, you are about to lose some money or freedom. Always!

Freedom is our birthright.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

Tell freedom I said hello.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

We must choose between freedom and fear – we cannot have both.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

We do need to think about how we have security - everyone has a right to that - but we also need to think about how we maintain civil rights and personal freedom.

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.