
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
Source: A Letter to a Hindu (1908), V
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
Written by Henry Stuber as part of a biographical sketch of Franklin appended to a 1793 edition of Franklin's autobiography and sometimes reprinted with it in the 19th century. It is frequently misattributed to Franklin himself.
Misattributed
Context: Libraries … will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. 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 regions of ignorance that tyranny reigns.
“When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.”
Book VI, ch. III
The Ambassadors (1903)
Quoted in [Datta Bandegiri,Asavari Fadanis & Aparna Atre, Paper solution English Reader(L.L.) Std.X, http://books.google.com/books?id=iBg8W5l2DlUC&pg=PA87, Jeevandeep Prakashan Pvt Ltd, 87–, GGKEY:C8230HKTBTZ, 87]
As quoted in The Defiant Imagination : Why Culture Matters (2004) by Max Wyman, p. 85