Posted on 05/26/2015 8:33:34 AM PDT by Biggirl
Supporters of the NSA’s large scale spying on the American people claim the program has made our country safer. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
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Nice to see Rand take a stand these days.
I don’t want to be splitting hairs here, but I don’t think Mr. Franklin used the terms: ‘essential’ liberty, or a ‘little temporary’ safety.
I don’t believe he qualified “liberty” and “security” at all.
There is a difference.
I could not agree more Rand. Let the monster die.
Nice to see Rand take a stand these days.
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Questions for Rand: “How would you deal with terrorists? Keep the borders open to Muslim immigration? Team-up with Sharpton to shackle the police, as you did during Ferguson? Oppose attacking their sanctuaries in Syria and Iraq?”
This was first written by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor (11 Nov. 1755)
Many paraphrased derivatives of this have often become attributed to Franklin:
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Bernie Sanders agrees.
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