Case in point: when Ben Franklin argued "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.", he was actually arguing for the authority of the Federal government to tax the states in order to fund a frontier defense against Native American raids[0, 1], not making some general crypto-minarchist statement about the dangers of ceding personal liberty to the authority of governments.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...

[1]https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...