Quotes & Sayings About Liberty Benjamin Franklin

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy. — William Bennett

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

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have 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

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

Where liberty is, there is my country. — 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

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's "Historical Review," 1759, appearing also in the body of the work. -Frothingham: Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413. — Benjamin Franklin

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country! — Benjamin Franklin

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. — Benjamin Franklin

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. — Benjamin Franklin

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. — Burl Ives

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty — Benjamin Franklin

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not. — Benjamin Franklin

Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth. — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! — Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety. — Benjamin Franklin

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

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.' — Ezra Taft Benson

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed. — Benjamin Franklin

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself. — Benjamin Franklin

We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both. — Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Laws without morals are in vain. — Benjamin Franklin

Way back in 1755 Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." With — Hillary Rodham Clinton

You never want to give up your liberty, even if you are told it is for security. The Patriot Act is a perfect example of giving up liberty for security. It says let us tap your phones so we can keep safe. — Benjamin Franklin

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, that those who trade some of their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. The wisdom of the founders never ceased to amaze him. — Brad Thor

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

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Security without liberty is called prison. — Benjamin Franklin