Benjamin Franklin : “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both”

Other Franklin quotes :

A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.

I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men

’tis his honesty that has brought upon him the character of heretic.

I’ve lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth — That God governs in the Affairs of Men