Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
Liberty is security. Freedom is security.
The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward 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.
With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.
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