Thank you! Alan On Friday 14 September 2001 08:21 pm, you wrote: > The original quote is: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a > little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > > The author is Benjamin Franklin. The sentence was used frequently during > the Revolutionary period. It first appeared in November, 1755, in an answer > by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of > Franklin's "Historical Review," 1759. > > jas