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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.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

The precondition to freedom is security.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.