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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width=601 align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=right height=25>AUTHOR:</TD><TD vAlign=top>Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=right height=25>QUOTATION:</TD><TD vAlign=top>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=right height=25>ATTRIBUTION:</TD><TD vAlign=top>BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755.—The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, vol. 6, p. 242 (1963).
This quotation, slightly altered, is inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=right height=25>QUOTATION:</TD><TD vAlign=top>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=right height=25>ATTRIBUTION:</TD><TD vAlign=top>BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755.—The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, vol. 6, p. 242 (1963).
This quotation, slightly altered, is inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
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