Alexander M. Bickel Quotes

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

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

The only thing that can protect me from someone coming from behind are the rules.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

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

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

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

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

The precondition to freedom is security.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

Only freedom can make security secure.