Why is it that so many people around the world appear willing

to give up freedoms in return for either security or prosperity?

From John Stuart Mill to Jeremy Bentham, from Sigmund

Freud to Franklin Roosevelt, this question has been posed

down the generations. Invariably we are told that it is either an

obvious choice or a false choice. “Those who would give up

essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve

neither liberty nor safety,” declared Benjamin Franklin in 1755.