IP: Re: Arianna's Latest Column [on the Bill Maher flap]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:38:48 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () olteco com>
> Subject: Re: IP: Arianna's Latest Column [on the Bill Maher flap]
> Cc: caruso () hybridvigor org
>
> > > > > We cannot let them succeed, for, as Benjamin Franklin put it, "Whoever 
> > > > > would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the 
> > > > > freeness of speech."
>         The complete sentence is:
>
>         "Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by
>         subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick
>         Traytors."
>
>         It's amazing that ms. Huffington would pick that particular Franklin
>         quotation since he's reputed to have written the piece under the
>         nom de plume of Silence DoGood for his brother James' paper, the
>         New-England Courant, purportedly at the age of 16.
>
>         Here's a link to Issue 49 wherein the quote appears as the last
>         last sentence of the third paragraph:
>
>         http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/courant/issue49.htm
>
>         WITHOUT Freedom of Thought, the can be no such Thing as
>         Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without
>         Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as
>         by it, he does not hurt or control the Right of another. And this
>         is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only bounds it
>         ought to know...
>
>         <go read the rest>
>
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