![]() RICHARD ANDERSON: Very simply - and I'm paraphrasing here - but Ben Franklin essentially said at one point, those who would trade privacy for a bit of security deserve neither privacy nor security. Take our conversation last week about police technologies with Virginia State Delegate Richard Anderson. ![]() Still, his words are often applied to such issues. Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Revolution and Reformation.Ben Franklin was innovative, but it's fair to say that he didn't imagine a future of cellphones and of all the privacy issues that come with them.Constitutionincludes audio of the letter that contains this quote, as read by Bill Barker, who interprets Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and elsewhere. ![]() Monticello Podcast: Jefferson's Words: Three Letters on the New U.S.I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ![]() That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. I beg leave through you to place them where due. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. In a 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson used the phrase "t ree of liberty":
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