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Ben Franklin put it well:

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

Each time I read this quote, I can only think of the Patriot Act.

When I think of the Pariot Act I think of what V said in V for Vendetta: The government should fear its people, never the other way around.

Or Thomas Jefferson: "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

Also an excellent quote, and entirely appropriate.