Reproduction of a Charles Mills painting around 1914 by the Detroit Publishing Company. It depicts Benjamin Franklin at work on a printing press. “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,” Franklin wrote in The Pennsylvania Gazette. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
By Charles E. Mills – This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g07217.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5066735
