[knapp]

I think it's quite funny because like so many quotation-on-image internet memes, it's not what Franklin actually wrote.

This is the actual line:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=6&p...

Some other misattributed variations are here:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Misattribute...