Those Who Would Give Up Liberty for Safety Deserve Neither?
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I don’t disagree with your statement but adding thoughts from two other American statesmen.
There is a quote by Theodore Roosevelt in 1917 in which he expresses somewhat similar concept without assigning individual punishments:
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
And by Franklin’s contemporary Thomas Jefferson who frames this issue in terms of unmet expectations, rather than collective or individual guilt. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
I don’t disagree with your statement but adding thoughts from two other American statesmen.
There is a quote by Theodore Roosevelt in 1917 which expresses somewhat similar concept without assigning individual punishments:
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
And by Franklin’s contemporary Thomas Jefferson who frames this issue in terms of unmet expectations, rather than collective or individual guilt. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
I don’t disagree with your statement but adding thoughts from two other American statesmen.
There is a quote by Theodore Roosevelt in 1917 in which he expresses somewhat similar concept without assigning individual punishments:
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
And by Franklin’s contemporary Thomas Jefferson who frames this issue in terms of unmet expectations, rather than collective or individual guilt. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
I don’t disagree with your statement but adding thoughts from two other American statesmen.
There is a quote by Theodore Roosevelt in 1917 which expresses somewhat similar concept without assigning individual punishments:
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
And by Franklin’s contemporary Thomas Jefferson who frames this issue in terms of unmet expectations, rather than collective or individual guilt. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”