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By Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Source
- Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755 · The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 6, pp. 238-243
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- Founders Online, National Archives
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From the Pennsylvania Assembly's reply to the governor of November 11, 1755, written during a dispute over taxing the Proprietors' lands to pay for frontier defence. The Franklin Papers list the Assembly as the author and note that a committee that included Franklin drafted the reply. The line is commonly credited to Franklin.