Here’s A Buttload Of Epic Quotes By The Founding Fathers That Will Inspire The Hell Out Of You

#11. 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; a terrible thing to publick traytors.” -Benjamin Franklin

free-speech

Franklin, writing in his Dogwood Papers in 1722 (while 16 years old), understood full well how important free speech was, and that subduing it was always the tool of tyrants.

Related posts

Leave a Comment