Re: Franklin
""Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.""
Franklin was speaking of raising tax money to raise a militia during the beginnings of the French and Indian war. He later lied to Quakers about money for a fire engine, while instead purchasing cannon. But then, a cannon most certainly is an engine of fire.
Especially to a freemason trying to help someone, despite their worst efforts to not be helped.
Things were a bit weird back then, but in the end, the Native Americans lost, the French lost and the militias largely had their butts handed to them by both the French and Native Americans, with the British rescuing those militias repeatedly.
3 Scots had members at our NCO open mess, where my unit at the time was formerly a militia and now is a US Army National Guard unit.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
