Helen Gahagan Quotes

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.

Liberty comes only after security.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

Security without freedom means slavery.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

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

Security is no replacement for liberty.

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 take away all our privacy rights, we become our own terrorists.

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

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

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.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

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