To: Brian S
People who give up their security in the name of freedom deserve neither. I believe Ben Franklin said something like this a long time ago. It still holds true today.
5 posted on
09/22/2003 8:06:11 AM PDT by
tomball
To: tomball
Correction: Ben's motto? He was complaining about the Penn Family and other town politics. The Penn's were exempt from paying the "defense tax" during French and Indian War.
They owned most of the property in colonial Philadelphia. Ben thought it was unfair back in 1759.
Source:www.ushistory.org/franklin/bio...
Chapter one.
11 posted on
09/23/2003 2:33:01 AM PDT by
Milligan
(Just want to get history straight.)
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