But too often, giving up essential liberty for temporary safety seems an easy call for him.

It contained numerous authoritarian elements but nevertheless guaranteed a few essential liberties.

"But those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Terrorists shall never deprive Americans of their essential liberties.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"

Ben Franklin said in 1755, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

And yet the Bush administration seems quite willing to compromise essential civil liberties in the name of security.

Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin once stated that those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Already essential British liberties and standards of legal and natural justice have been compromised by our response to this phenomenon.