Safety Vs Freedom Quotes

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the 2nd Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.