He who lives upon hope will die fasting.
Tag: Benjamin Franklin
(1706–1790) One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
Real equality
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 and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.
Freedom of speech is the first to go
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.
I want liberty
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Trading liberty for safety
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Orators
Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.