10 Quotes That Show How Radical The Founding Fathers Were About Gun Ownership

#3. “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin, 1755

Benjamin Franklin’s 1755 letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania was in response to the governor’s rejection of a bill that would have provided arms to frontiersmen in order to protect them from Indian attacks. This simple phrase resonates throughout history and, at least tangentially, applies to the idea that a free individual must not sacrifice their individual rights such as those later codified in the constitution, specifically the 2nd Amendment.

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