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Brdgt ([personal profile] brdgt) wrote2003-03-21 11:34 am
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From Alter net:

But in the words of Benjamin Franklin, one of the few Founding Fathers who neither owned slaves nor condoned slavery, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Compare the The Alien and Sedition Acts to the Second Patriot Act

[identity profile] dearemma.livejournal.com 2003-03-21 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
excellent quote