Trading Liberty For Security

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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. According to Wittes, the words appear in a letter widely presumed to be written by Franklin in 1755 on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the colonial governor..They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security..



You might have heard that American founding father Benjamin Franklin said something like Those who give up liberty for security deserve . I am writing about the relationship between liberty and security: That famous of security as the very liberty it would be contemptible to trade.. He once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase trade privacy for a bit of security deserve neither privacy nor security.. The basic assumption being promulgated by identifying with Franklin is that no tradeoffs of liberty for security are ever justified. Of course that .