Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little te

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

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Liberty is Gods gift, liberties the devil s. – Proverb

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Liberty

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke

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