To: jerseygirl
Someone PLEASE help me get this quote!
They that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
2,598 posted on
02/12/2004 12:02:40 AM PST by
JustPiper
(When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred)
To: JustPiper
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.
GOOD LINK2,650 posted on
02/12/2004 4:27:12 AM PST by
milkncookies
(As Napoleon said, "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.")
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