The precondition to freedom is security.

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

— Peter DeFazio

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition…

— Bobbe Sommer

And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be mad, or…

— Susanna Kaysen

To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental…

— Terence McKenna

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

— Christopher Lasch

“It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very…

— Haruki Murakami

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

— James Q. Wilson

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

— Christian Wiman

Reliability is the precondition for trust.

— Wolfgang Schauble

What America first means is we put the national interests of the United States and the well-being of our own country and our own…

— Pat Buchanan

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom…

— Tarja Halonen

He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

— Jesse Ventura

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

— Christopher Hitchens