
„Weil Ihnen viel gegeben wurde, haben wir das Recht, viel von Ihnen zu erwarten.“
A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved.
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
Kontext: 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.
„Weil Ihnen viel gegeben wurde, haben wir das Recht, viel von Ihnen zu erwarten.“
„Jede Nation spottet über die andere, und alle haben Recht.“
Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit. Kapitel IV: Von Dem, was Einer vorstellt. http://books.google.de/books?id=_nERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA343&dq=spottet
Parerga und Paralipomena, Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit
„Ich kenne keine Methode, nach der man eine ganze Nation unter Anklage stellen kann.“
Reden, 1775
"It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." - On Conciliation with America. House of Commons, March 22, 1775
Stuttgarter Zeitung Nr. 242/2008 vom 16. Oktober 2008, S. 21
Interview mit dem Deutschlandradio, dradio.de http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/interview_dlf/693733/, 9. November 2007