Rand Paul Quotes

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

How far are we to go in pursuit of greater security at the cost of essential liberties?

The most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism — as frightening as that is — but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security.

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

Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

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

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".

Security without freedom means slavery.

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.