That is not the correct quote.
B Franklian said "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchaſe a little Temporary Safety, deſerve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Source
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
More over though I think the reality is things are changing, peoples values are watered down and we've being forced into excepting things unlike in times past.
If you look at the amount of things like same sex marriages, removal of religion from schools and other things along these lines. More has changed in the last 50-60 years then in the 200 years before that.