AureliusMaximus
Master Don Juan
I was thinking of these quotes btw. by Franklin..
AND“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 thing terrible to publick traytors.”
Benjamin Franklin, Dogwood Papers, written by Franklin in 1722, at the age of sixteen
Interestingly that is exactly what the left and many political leads is attempting to achieve and are currently working hard at it to push their agenda through.“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…derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.”
“On Freedom of Speech and the Press” Pennsylvania Gazette, November 17, 1737.
Benjamin Franklin