1.) The article didn't link the original letter. If you want to give the context, then link the entire text from the letter. Wittes may be completely accurate

1.) The article didn't link the original letter. If you want to give the context, then link the entire text from the letter. Wittes may be completely accurate, but there is no way to verify his credibility. 2.) Wittes still didn't prove that his remarks are not a general argument to the specific issue he is writing about. The quotation is so generic that is seems to be a basic principle that he believes in, and he is using that principle as his argument against this specific instance of liberties being curtailed. If Wittes posted the actual text that surrounds the quote, it would become clear that he believes in this general principle in every context, not just in this specific argument. "There is not in any volume, the sacred writings excepted, a passage to be found better worth the veneration of freemen, than this, "those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety;" nor could a lesson of more utility have been laid at the crisis before the Pennsylvanians." http://books.google.com/books?id=HptPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA100&dq=%22deserve+neither%22+franklin+-essential&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0Gn6UojUGuPr2wWlnYHoAw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22deserve%20neither%22%20franklin%20-essential&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=HptPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA100&dq=%2...