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where is this ben franklin quote from?
"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. "
I have seen many people quoting this on the internet, however I would like to know where this came from.
Is it published in a book? was it from a speech? where can I get or view the full text to which this quote was taken from?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Frankly, I don't think it was Franklin.
A huge archive of his works are online at:
http://www.franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolum...
A search for the words "freedom" and "security" show no resembling species of the quote.
Until some reputable source is found, I have to conclude it was spawned and erroneously attributed to Ben Franklin... probably sometime after "9/11"
The number of variants of this on the internet might tend to support this theory.