Where liberty is, there is my country. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, Mason Lock…

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Where liberty is, there is my country. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, Mason Locke Weems (1817). The Life of Benjamin Franklin, p.184
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Where liberty is, there is my country. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, Mason Locke Weems (1817). The Life of Benjamin Franklin, p.184

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