As quoted in Human Rights and Freedoms in the USSR (1981) by Fedor Eliseevich Medvedev and Gennadiĭ Ivanovich Kulikov, p. 221 <br class="br">Original: Le secret de la liberté est d'éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l'ignorance <br class="br">Variant: The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. <br class="br">Source: Public statement (November 1792), quoted in Oeuvres de Maximilien Robespierre (1840), Volume 2, p. 253 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original French: Le secret de la liberté est d'éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l'ignorance <br class="br">Source: Oeuvres, Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ p. 253.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
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
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2010-07-20
2010s, 2010
“Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead”
Stephen King book Under the Dome
Source: Under the Dome
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Source: Quoted by Gerald Gawalt in " In His Own Words: Library Exhibition Celebrates Tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/franklin.html"
“The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.”
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original: (fr) Le gouvernement de la révolution est le despotisme de la liberté contre la tyrannie. <br class="br">Source: Speech to the National Convention http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/discours/robespierre_principes_morale_politique_05_02_94.htm (5 February 1794)
“The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”
Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars
Source: Pretty Little Liars
