Patrick Henry Quotes

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

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

The precondition to freedom is security.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

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

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

Only freedom can make security secure.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

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

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I believe in the right to defend yourself.

Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.

Liberty comes only after security.

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

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.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.