Ben Franklin – Enemy of the State
Graduation speaker heckled, booed, forced off stage for quoting Ben Franklin:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
It’s good to see that two centuries later that old troublemaker can still raise the hackles of fascists.
Franklin also said this:
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.