Quotes & Sayings About Freedom By Benjamin Franklin

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. — Benjamin Franklin

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.
Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other. — Benjamin Franklin

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know. — Benjamin Franklin

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. — Benjamin Franklin

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics ... derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates. — Benjamin Franklin

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. — Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin

It is with great sincerity I join you in acknowledging and admiring the dispensations of Providence in our favor. America has only to be thankful and to persevere. God will finish his work and establish their freedom ... If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence,in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity! It is He who abases the proud and favors the humble. May we never forget His goodnes to us, and may our future conduct manifest our gratitude ... I believe in one God, Creator of the universe. That He governs it by his providence. That He ought to be worshiped. — Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. — Benjamin Franklin

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755 — Benjamin Franklin

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty — Benjamin Franklin

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one. — Benjamin Franklin

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. — Benjamin Franklin

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free. — Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart ... To instruct, to advise, to qualify those, who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty ... and to procure for their children an education calculated for their future situation in life; these are the great outlines of the annexed plan, which we have adopted.
[For the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 1789] — Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both — Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 — Wendy Goerl

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. — Benjamin Franklin

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both. — Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it? — Benjamin Franklin

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither — Benjamin Franklin

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. — Benjamin Franklin