Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.
The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
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.
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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