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Lefty Thinker

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2. I'll let Mr. Benjamin Franklin say it:

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2012, 01:19 PM

Aug 2012

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- written in quotation marks as part of his notes for a proposition at the Pennsylvania Assembly (Wikiquote)

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I'll let Mr. Benjamin Franklin say it: Lefty Thinker Aug 2012 #2

Read the whole story on that quote sometime... malthaussen Aug 2012 #4