Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Tyranny

• 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 region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

• Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Taken, Government, Support

  "On Freedom of Speech and the Press". Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Gazette, November 17, 1737.

• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tyrants, Conservative, Rebellion

• It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ignorance, Tyranny Founding Fathers, Tyranny

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