Viktor Orban Quotes

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.

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.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

The precondition to freedom is security.

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

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

Security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can have both

Certainly I support the Constitution, and I respect people's privacy, but I also think we need to err on the side of protecting us.

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

Security without freedom means slavery.

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free.

The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.

Privacy, in my point of view, is a civil liberty that our Founding Fathers thought of a long time ago and concluded ... was an essential part of what it was to be an American.

The issue of wiretapping raises the issue of the balance between human liberty and the requirements of national security. I would say that the weight should be on the side of human liberty and that if human liberty is ever to be infringed, the demonstration on the national security side must be overwhelming.

It doesn’t keep us safe and it doesn’t keep us free if we give up our liberties to the government.

There is no security in the profered system, either for the rights of conscience or the liberty of the Press.

Even if a person is doing nothing wrong, in a free society, that person shouldn’t have to justify every action that government officials might view as suspicious. A key component of freedom is not having to worry about how to explain oneself all the time.

If we give up all our privacy rights, have we become any safer?

Domestic intelligence activity has threatened and undermined the Constitutional rights of Americans to free speech, association and privacy. It has done so primarily because the Constitutional system for checking abuse of power has not been applied.

Benjamin Franklin once said, 'A people who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.' I think we can have both. We can keep our liberties. We can have our security.

The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity.

Let's stop trading freedom for the illusion of security.