Freedom Tradeoff Quotes

America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

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.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

… new authoritarians are conducting an epoch-making historical experiment as to whether regimes that allow private freedoms can endure when they deny their citizens public freedom.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.