Author: Benjamin Franklin

“This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance … Continue reading →

“He who lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice … Continue reading →

“In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”

“Where liberty is, there is my country.”

“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.”