They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S — Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S — Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S — Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S — Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S — Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
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They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S

— Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
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