Comments on: Where did everyone go?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:05:16 +0000

Thanks for the correction. So is the suggestion that Benjamin Franklin said it first, but Jefferson said it better?

By: Soroush

Soroush — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:23:23 +0000

I’m almost certain that it’s Benjamin Franklin quote.

From Wikiquote, under Misattributed: “This has actually become a common paraphrase of a statement that is believed to have originated with Benjamin Franklin: ‘Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.’”

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson)

By: Gibbons Burke

Gibbons Burke — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:40:35 +0000

Apocryphal sign seen on the British Embassy in Washington on the Fourth of July one year:

“Due to circumstances beyond our control, the embassy will be closed today.”