Quotes About Benjamin

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

What is this thing? Did you make it?""I am a chemist, aren't I?" Laurence says."You own a meth-lab, " Benjamin says. "That does not qualify you as a chemist.

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

I really like Benjamin from Sweden with 'Dance You Off,' and Equinox from Bulgaria with 'Bones' - and they were really great to interview at the London Eurovision Party.

To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an accidental meeting with Benjamin Cole.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

But in the suite, all Kat heard was the deep sighs of her companions and their simultaneous exclamation, "Benjamin Franklin.

Un jour, Mme de Staël était dans une barque sur le lac Léman avec Mme Récamier et Benjamin Constant, quand un des rameurs : " ce nuage à l'horizon nous annonce un gros temps." " Dites, Benjamin, fit Mme de Staël, si nous faisions naufrage qui de nous deux sauveriez-vous ?" Et Benjamin Constant à Mme de Staël : "vous, vous savez nager.

'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.

yellow-fever epidemic of 1798 that had claimed the lives of Benjamin Franklin Bache and John Fenno had also given fresh urgency to the work of the Widows Society, as many women lost their family breadwinners.

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

I'm something of a foodie, I guess, and I'm a big Chinese food fan.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president.

If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.

No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.