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Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. Benjamin Franklin. War, Government, Guy. 771 Copy quote. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin. Education, Work, Stupid. 248 Copy quote. Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.
- "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" (proposed by Franklin for the motto of the Great Seal of the United States).
- "From a persuasion that equal liberty was originally the portion, it is still the birthright of all men."
- "Every man…is, of common right, and by the laws of God, a freeman, and entitled to the free enjoyment of liberty."
- "All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual… is his natural right which none can justly deprive him of."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a Founding Father of the American republic, an author, inventor, and diplomat whose life and ideas came to be identified with the new American nation. He wrote the best selling Poor Richard’s Almanac (1733), a posthumously published Autobiography, and many articles advocating American independence from Great Britain. From 1776-1785 he was the American ...
Sep 22, 2023 · Monday, September 17, 1787: The Convention Today. The day began with a prepared speech from Franklin (PA) who, eighty-one years old and painfully afflicted with gout and kidney stone, was unable to read it himself and delegated that task to Wilson (PA). While the speech was formally addressed to Washington (VA), the Convention’s president ...
Jul 2, 2022 · Benjamin Franklin — Famous Quotes. Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. — Benjamin Franklin, from “Silence Dogood” letters, printed in the New England Courant, July 9, 1722. If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were ...
Benjamin Franklin Quotes on Reading, Writing, and Knowledge. “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” -Benjamin Franklin. “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.” -Benjamin Franklin. “The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a ...
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Jan 24, 2017 · In 1787 when Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention a lady famously asked “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” Franklin replied tartly, “if you can keep it.”. Now, 230 years later, Franklin’s observation on our Founders’ great experiment haunts us. Two years later, at President ...
