They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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- John Bartlett (18201905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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- NUMBER: 3929
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- AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
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- QUOTATION: They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety. 1
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- ATTRIBUTION: Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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- BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.
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- Note 1.
- This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period.
It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly
of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's
"Historical
Review," 1759, appearing also in the body of the work.-Frothingham:
Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413.
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