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> I seem to recall a quote from Thomas Jefferson that I can not find.
> Can you help? I think it is, "If we sacrifice freedom for the sake of
> security we will soon have neither."
I believe the quote you are looking for is from Benjamin Franklin, not
Jefferson.
I am quite sure that Franklin is the correct author and that you will
find it so attributed in Bartlett's Familar Quotations.
From Bartlett's quotations:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." [2]
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
Note 2: This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It
occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer to the Assembly of
Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's
"Historical Review," 1759, appearing also in the body of the work. -
Frothingham: Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413
9th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.