“If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.”

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

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“No realistic American can expect from a dictator's peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of expression, or freedom of religion, or even good business. Such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors. Those, who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”

“They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.—written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755”

“Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.”