evidence: Sometimes bogus Franklin quotes say nice things, but this one gets ugly if you reverse it: when a nation does become enslaved, it must be because they were ignorant or didn’t sufficiently value their natural rights. This leaves out being surprised, out-gunned, overpowered, or overcome by disease as factors in one nation’s enslavement by another. [...] As I write this, in our national repository, the National Archives, in its main building on our National Mall, in the most sacred Rotunda, in the 17th display cabinet on the far right, under glass, is the mis-attributed double mis-quote: "A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved. [...] QuoteFancy.com allows a variety of wallpaper settings with pretty pictures behind a mis-attributed triple misquote, with "It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins – Benjamin Franklin" — what does that even mean?