Now if only someone could find his brain and remind the American people we have a Republic -- or did.
Stolen bust of Benjamin Franklin is recovered
"Woman admits to theft of Franklin bust" Associated Press, April 24, 2013
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A housekeeper has pleaded guilty in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust allegedly worth $3 million that was taken from a home in suburban Philadelphia.
Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala., was living in Philadelphia when the bust was stolen Aug. 24. She allegedly fled to Alabama with the bust, before she was arrested Sept. 21 getting off a Greyhound bus in Elkton, Md., where she had planned to sell the sculpture.
Lawton told investigators she stole the bust because she wanted to get the owner of the cleaning service for whom she worked fired. She said crews who cleaned the home had been told it was valuable....
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Related: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
You know who said it.
"Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful."
Said that, too.
