“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” InspirationalGivingLittlesWarHappinessPoliticsPeaceFreedomLibertyRightsPoliticianEssentialsGiving UpDeserveSafetyLibertarianTemporaryInsightfulCensorshipAmendmentsFounding4th Of JulyInventorGiven UpFreedom And LibertyDeservingSecond AmendmentFreedom LibertyCivil LibertiesOur Founding FathersProperty RightsLimited GovernmentUs Founding FathersRight To Bear ArmsForefathersBearing ArmsObtainingAmerican GovernmentLimiting GovernmentRights And FreedomsFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaPro GunLibertarian PartyFounding Fathers GunLimited Freedom2 AmendmentEternal VigilanceFounding Fathers Second AmendmentFounding Fathers DemocracyFramersLiberty And JusticeIndependence Day PatrioticDemocracy FreedomPrice Of FreedomAmerican FreedomSafety And SecurityPolymathsCorrupt GovernmentGun SafetyPower GovernmentSecurity And FreedomAmerican PowerAmerican Independence DaySecurity And LibertyFirst Amendment Rights Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818 Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“I think that there’s going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.” ThinkingWantBelieveHappensI BelieveLibertyRightsBalanceCivilizationJudgmentSafetyDemocraticProtectionDebateCivil LibertiesSuspensionPublic SafetyDemocratic Rights Author:Barbara Lee
“I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.” PeopleBelieveHumansI BelieveRightsSecurityDangerousTrumpConceptsSafetyHuman RightsCriminalsTerroristBritainAllowingPublic Safety Author:David Cameron
“[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.” GivingShouldSelfGovernmentValuesLibertyRightsGiving UpSafetyUnionsDeterminedSovereigntySelf-government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.” MadeGovernmentActionJobsNationsSidesPresidentCan DoCasesSupportRightsStreetsSecuritySafeDignitySafetySecureGuaranteesPresident BushAmerican WomanLegal SystemAmerican Government Author:John F. Kerry
“Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude” HumansMadeChoicesDemocracyRightsDangerStandingDecidedSafetyHuman RightsConvictionServitudeOur ChoicesBurmaBasic Human Rights Author:Aung San
“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.” WorldFirstsHumansIdeasSoulUseIndividualWishDestinyRightsCircumstancesRepublicanSolitudeJudgmentConscienceSafetyIndividualityOccasionsIslandsFacultyImaginarySolitaryWomens RightsCitizenshipFridayHuman SoulProtestantsDiscussingArbiterRobinson Crusoe Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.” GovernmentEvilIndividualCan DoRolesRightsModernEffectsSafetyIndependenceSecureProtestExcessDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceModern SocietyNecessary EvilRole Of Government Author:Gerald R. Ford
“But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.” WorldHeartGovernmentLastsFightingNationsVoiceLibertyDemocracyRightsAuthorityUniversalSafetyConcertsSubmitDominionDeclaration Of WarSmall Nations Author:Woodrow Wilson
“The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.” PeopleEndsUseChoicesNationsRightsSafetyBillsDisregardBill Of RightsWarrantsCallous Author:Rand Paul
“My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.” LawGoalRightsGunResponsibleSafetyBillsFocusedOwnersGun ControlAbidingSigningPublic SafetyGun Owners Author:Jerry Brown