Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Benjamin Franklin on Liberty and Safety

"When anybody preaches disunity, tries to pit one of us against the other through class warfare, race hatred, or religious intolerance, you know that person seeks to rob us of our freedom and destroy our very lives. And we know what to do about it. Working together to produce an ever-greater abundance of material and spiritual values for all - that is the secret of American prosperity."

"They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin, 1775)