> А как сказал Беня Франклин - те кто готов пожертвовать свободой ради
> безопасности - не заслуживают ни свободы, ни безопасности. И таки он
> имхо знал что говорил.

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> So to start matters, Franklin was writing not as a subject being asked to cede his liberty to government, but
> in his capacity as a legislator being asked to renounce his power to tax lands notionally under his
> jurisdiction. In other words, the “essential liberty” to which Franklin referred was thus not what we would
> think of today as civil liberties but, rather, the right of self-governance of a legislature in the interests of
> collective security.

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> for in Franklin’s letter, the word “purchase” does not appear to have been a metaphor. The governor was
> accusing the Assembly of stalling on appropriating money for frontier defense by insisting on including the
> Penn lands in its taxes--and thus triggering his intervention.

(c) https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said