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“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 01545b6400e7885829fd74c85f008408b3835d4d5ee9c2861bd02e2c1b83cc74
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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