# NSA Surveillance Pro or Against?

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nsa-surveillance-pro-or-against/267371/9 "2013-07-09T14:10:36Z")

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> [@NSX, Elise, C6, Viper](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nsx-elise-c6-viper/52983/142):
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> Actual quote  
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> **“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”**
> 
> You could literally purchase safety at that time.
> 
> If you’re curious look further into the background and context of that quote…

False.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

This was written by Franklin, sometime shortly before February 17, 1775 as part of his notes for a proposition at the Pennsylvania Assembly, as published in Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin (1818).

A variant of this was published as:  
“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

This was used as a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania. (1759); the book was published by Franklin; its author was Richard Jackson, but Franklin did claim responsibility for some small excerpts that were used in it.

Source: [Benjamin Franklin - Wikiquote](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin)

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