Quotes that support giving up liberty for security?

Although I disagee with the utterances below, I provide them in response to your good question.

__"You know when it came to that situation [WikiLeaks], it was actually based on espionage, and when it comes to the security of our nation, we have to focus on security first and then people’s right to know, because it’s so important that everybody who’s in our borders is safe and so we can’t let things like that happen, and they must be handled properly."

~ Ms. Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011 (in response to a question about WikiLeaks)

http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2011/01/17/mis...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teresa-sc...

___"The principle, in all communities, according to these numerous and various causes, assigns to power and liberty their proper sphere. To allow to liberty, in any case, a sphere of action more extended than this assigns, would lead to anarchy; and this, probably, in the end, to a contraction instead of an enlargement of its sphere. Liberty, then, when forced on a people unfit for it, would, instead of a blessing, be a curse; as it would, in its reaction, lead directly to anarchy,—the greatest of all curses."

~ John C. Calhoun in his "Disquisition on Government"

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2011/12/07/southe...

___"In wartime, reason and history both suggest that [the balance between freedom and order] shifts to some degree in favor of order--in favor of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being."

~ Chief Justice William Rehnquist

http://www.albanylawreview.org/articles/Thornburgh... [p. 811]

Additionally, please see:

http://www.ncs.gov/library/policy_docs/nat_strat_h... ["National Strategy for Homeland Security," Office of Homeland Security, July 2002]