“Formerly, the purchase of Texas by our Government, for the purpose of bestowing it as a gift upon our colored population, was a favorite opinion of ours; but we have settled down into the belief, that the object is neither practicable nor expedient. In the first place, it is not probable that the Congress would make the purchase; nor, secondly, is it likely that the mass of our colored people would remove without some compulsory process; nor, thirdly, would it be safe or convenient to organise them as a distinct nation among us,—an imperium in imperio. The fact is, it is time to repudiate all colonization schemes, as visionary and unprofitable; all those, we mean, which have for their design the entire separation of the blacks from the whites. We must take our free colored and slave inhabitants as we find them—recognise them as countrymen who have extraordinary claims upon our charities—give them the advantages of education—respect them as members of one great family, who may be made useful in society and honorable in reputation. This is our view of the subject.”

This was first used by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its &quot; Reply to the Governor https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-06-02-0107&quot; (11 Nov. 1755) <br class="br">This quote was used as a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania (1759); the book was published by Franklin; its author was Richard Jackson, but Franklin did claim responsibility for some small excerpts http://www.philaprintshop.com/rarephila.html that were used in it. <br class="br">In 1775 Franklin again used this phrase in his contribution to Massachusets Conference https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-21-02-0269 (Objections to Barclay’s Draft Articles of February 16.) - &quot;They who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.&quot; <br class="br">An earlier variant by Franklin in Poor Richard&#x27;s Almanack (1738): &quot;Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.&quot; <br class="br">Many paraphrased derivatives of this have often become attributed to Franklin: <br class="br">They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.<br>They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.<br>Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.<br>He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.<br>He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.<br>People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.<br>If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.<br>Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.<br>He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.<br>Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.<br>Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security. <br class="br">1750s <br class="br">Source: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-06-02-0107#BNFN-01-06-02-0107-fn-0005

Book I, ch. 6.
Discourses

Statement (April 1936), quoted in Anthony Adamthwaite, Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe 1914-1940 (London: Arnold, 1995), p. 182.

Final address (1973)
Context: Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seeds which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.

Source: The Comedians

Speech in the Liverpool Street Station Hotel, London (20 June 1901) on the Boer War, quoted in Speeches by The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G. (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1927), p. 40
Opposition MP

On her desire to insure that Bill Clinton would be impeached, as quoted in Uncovering Clinton : A Reporter's Story (1998) by Michael Isikoff, p. 183.
1980s-90s

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 180

"A Plan for Peace", April 1932, pp. 107-108, summarizing an address to the New History Society, New York City,
Birth Control Review, 1918-32