"People willing to trade their freedom for..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
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“I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.”
“Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.”
“My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.”
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“Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.”
“There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.”
“The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.”