Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Wisdom at a young age

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech…”

“The administration of government is nothing else but the attendance of the trustees of the people upon the interest and affairs of the people; and as it is the part and business of the people, for whose sake alone all public matters are, or ought to be, transacted, to see weather they be well or ill transacted, so it is the interest and ought to be the ambition of all honest magistrates to have their deeds openly examined and publicly scanned. Only the wicked governors of men dread what is said of them.”

Ben Franklin age 16.

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