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
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