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- Ben Franklin was right!!
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"Any man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither."
The problem with paraphrasing (very smart of you for putting that there), is that even 1 missed word can change the entire context.
Actual quote from Benjamin Franklin's Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759) =
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Key words here are "essential", "little", and "temporary". I have seen this quote thrown out to almost every posting board on the Internet (even attributed to Thomas Jefferson) with its true form or meaning hardly ever intact.
You can liken it the example that our our forefathers did not mean 'You should own a fully automatic M-16.' when they wrote about the Right to bear arms. (It references a militia.) - Posted by: SC-man Posted on: 01/22/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
what did the government give in return?
travis9 | 01/21/04
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Don't forget your tin foil hat
NemesisNL | 01/28/04
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Fourth Amendment
lkkelley | 01/21/04
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The 4th Ammendment is gone.
nite_w0lf | 01/22/04
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Ben Franklin was right!!
Mack DaNife | 01/22/04
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Ben Franklin was right!!
SC-man | 01/22/04
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Appreciate
LightningShrike | 01/22/04
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Liberty
SC-man | 01/22/04
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Re:Liberty
Mack DaNife | 01/26/04
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Re:Liberty
SC-man | 01/26/04
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Re:Liberty
Mack DaNife | 01/28/04
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Re: Liberty
SC-man | 01/28/04
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no kidding
JWatson77 | 01/22/04
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Its a
ParadigmOdyssey | 01/22/04
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soon we will have to wear sheets over our head
JWatson77 | 01/22/04
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No rights with our own bodies
Nullifidian | 01/23/04
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what did you think would happen??
NemesisNL | 01/25/04
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Re: what did you think would happen??
GoatTuber | 01/26/04
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