Benjamin Franklin:

Let me add, that only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

Reflecting on the nature of governance and morality

Unknown, attributed to his writings on government

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