Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Benjamin Franklin” in chapter 5 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.:
... the powers of government; to which add a most licentious use of thinking, in relation to those powers, most industriously inculcated and fomented.
Through the press, no one had been so active as Benjamin Franklin .
His newspaper defended absolute freedom of speech and of the press; for he held that Falsehood alone dreads attack, and cries out for auxiliaries, while Truth scorns the aid of the secular arm, a...
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