8/30/2023 0 Comments Free speech quotesWhy? Because James Franklin was in jail at the time for printing something that offended government officials in Massachusetts-and the 16 year old Benjamin Franklin went on publishing the paper without him! It gets weirder: this issue of the Courant, from 2-9 July 1722, was printed by Benjamin Franklin, not James Franklin. Why did he do that? Because Franklin was only 16 when he wrote the letters from Silence Dogood to his brother James' newspaper, the New England Courant (where Franklin was an apprentice printer), and James refused to print anything his little brother wrote. ![]() ![]() This particular statement of free speech was not written by Franklin but rather quoted at length with approval by Franklin from an "Abstract from the London Journal." But even this didn't appear under the name "Benjamin Franklin"-Franklin printed it under the name of Silence Dogood, a fictional middle-aged widow that Franklin made up. On this Independence Day, FIRE would like to quote Benjamin Franklin, favorite son of our own hometown of Philadelphia, on free speech.Īctually, that's not 100% true.
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