This is quotation number 29 from The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations. It’s available for preorder from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSYVFVGN
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Whoever Would Overthrow The Liberty of A Nation
This is quote number 146 from The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations. It’s available for preorder at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSYVFVGN
Equal Treatment Under The Law
The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are written in stone over the main entrance of the United States Supreme Court Building. They were derived from the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, which states: “No State shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection…
Whoever Would Overthrow the Liberty of a Nation Must Begin by Subduing Freedom of Speech
Benjamin Franklin was a statesman, diplomat, inventor, and scientist. He signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He persuaded the French to fight with us against the British in the Revolutionary War. He founded the University of Pennsylvania. Here, he explained why freedom of speech is essential to our survival as a nation:…
Our Prayers Were Heard And They Were Graciously Answered
Benjamin Franklin believed in God, and he also believed in the power of prayer. He was eight-one years old when he attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787. When the proceedings were hopelessly deadlocked, Franklin made a motion that the delegates open each day’s session with prayer. This is the written record of his speech: Mr….
Benjamin Franklin’s Request for Prayer at The Constitutional Convention
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations. Benjamin Franklin believed in God, and he also believed in the power of prayer. He was eighty-one when he attended the Constitutional Convention at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1787. He made a motion…
Equal Treatment Under the Law
“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.” -Benjamin Franklin
Well-Informed Men Cannot Be Enslaved
Benjamin Franklin said, “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.”
Have We Forgotten Our Powerful Friend?
Benjamin Franklin said, “All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence in our favor. . . . And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?”