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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. -- Salman Rushdie
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom. -- Sarah Waters
Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq. -- Ron Lewis
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves. -- Carre Otis
The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy. -- Ben Nelson
Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms. -- Wesley Clark
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. -- Alexander Meiklejohn
As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do. -- Marco Arment
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on. -- Richard Trumka
I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself. -- Herbie Hancock
Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither -- Thomas Jefferson
Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither. -- Thomas Jefferson
He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither. -- Benjamin Franklin
The way out of fear isn't safety. It's freedom. -- Martha Beck
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom. -- E. B. White
If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one -- Benjamin Franklin
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. -- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety. -- Tulip Siddiq
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom. -- John Stossel
I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom. -- Barack Obama
Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety. -- Park Dietz
These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety. -- J.D. Stroube
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. -- Khalil Gibran
Describing Bonhoeffer's demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with "with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom. -- Eric Metaxas

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