“To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.”

— Gerry Spence

Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 16 : Security, the One-Way Ticket to Slavery, p. 174

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