Jeopardy answer

[hillbillyhotel]

tonight dw gave me that look when I knew the answer was Ben Franklin




They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”


tks scrubjaynest

 

[Wingedryder]

Hillbillyhotel,

A little off the subject here, but so admire your 'tag line' here on the Forum re those who might give up essential liberty in order to purchase temporary safety....
- promise I'll give you credit if I happen to use your quote myself! BTW, where did you steal this from? Ha, ha! More true words could not have been spoken!

 

[Icon-KEY]

Or you could pull from Thomas Jefferson's stack 'o' quotes to pretty much say anything, the guy was on every side of every issue.

:new_all_c

 

[hillbillyhotel]

I I cant take credit for that , that is scrubjaynest tag line , that's where I read it , and it stuck , because it rings so true,

 

[Padgett]

Mine is "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

 

[Icon-KEY]

Mine is "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Can you name the originator?

 

[Padgett]

Burke
"among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

 

[hillbillyhotel]

I have thought about using this,
(Democracy will only exist until the people vote themselves into bankruptcy)
Karl Marx

 

[Icon-KEY]

Burke
"among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

Very good and correct.

Who wrote "The Road to Serfdom"? No googling.

 

[Icon-KEY]

I have thought about using this,
(Democracy will only exist until the people vote themselves into bankruptcy)
Karl Marx

Speaking of Marx, I believe it was Lenin claiming, "A capitalist will sell you the rope you will use to hang him with."

 

[Padgett]

A socialist would give it to you (but would have to join the queue to get one first).

 

[kempert]

BF quote

The first quote on the subject of liberty from Benjamin Franklin (as he put it in the 1738 edition of Poor Richard’s Almanack) is “Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.” He later used “They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” which he wrote for the PA Assembly in 1855. Both quotes have similar meanings and have been frequently paraphrased.