Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security