American president Quote by George Nethercutt

The precondition to freedom is security.

— Rand Beers

Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the…

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.

— Joy Reid

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

— Oliver Ellsworth

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

— Epictetus

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

— Anonymous

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

— Karl Popper

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.

— Alexis Tsipras

Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs…

— Hugh Douglas

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form…

— Edmund Burke