Benjamin Franklin - Know the Rights God Gave Us

Benjamin Franklin is recognized as one of our Founding Fathers. He was one of the more liberal among that group, but he knew that Jefferson was right when he talked about men being endowed by their Creator with rights. Franklin said:

"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know the price of the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved."

Walker P. Whitman, A Christian History of the American Republic: A Textbook for Secondary Schools, (Boston: Green Leaf Press, 1939,1948), 97.