"„Wer wesentliche Freiheit aufgeben kann, um eine geringfügige bloß jeweilige [= einstweilige] Sicherheit zu bewirken [= erlangen], verdient weder Freiheit, noch Sicherheit.“ – Bemerkungen über die Vorschläge. In: Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s nachgelassene Schriften und Correspondenz, nebst seinem Leben. Band 3. Franklin’s Leben ersten Theil enthaltend. Weimar 1818 S. 442 books.google (zum „Entwurf, wie eine dauernde Vereinigung zwischen England und seinen Pflanzungen [= Kolonien] bewirkt werden könnte“, Januar 1775, a. a. O. S. 434 books.google)"
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Benjamin Franklin
1706 – 1790
US-amerikanischer Staatsmann, Naturwissenschaftler und Schriftsteller
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