Quotes About Franklin

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

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

Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

I've been offered the role of Franklin Roosevelt, and I wouldn't presume to undertake it.

Franklin can see you. How long has she been missing?" "Four days." It felt like forever.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked what book he could give the Soviets to teach them about the advantages of American society, he pointed to the Sears catalogue.

Unlike Franklin or Jefferson, he never learned to subdue his opponents with a light touch or a sly, artful, understated turn of phrase.

Franklin wanted a unicameral legislature and an executive council in lieu of a president. He also opposed a presidential veto on legislation, thinking it would lead to executive corruption "till it ends in monarchy.

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.

Later, when a political break with Britain seemed unavoidable, Franklin was distressed by its possible cultural repercussions for him and his countrymen. Would they be cut off for ever from Shakespeare?

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

By the Collision of different Sentiments," Franklin wrote, "Sparks of Truth are struck out, and political Light is obtained.

After Benjamin Franklin read Jefferson's draft, he picked up his quill, scratched out the words "sacred and undeniable," and suggested that "these truths" were, instead, "self-evident." This was mroe than a quibble. Truths that are sacred and undeniable are God-given and divine, the stuff of religion. Truths that are self-evident are laws of nature, empirical and observable, the stuff of science.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

When Franklin suggested on June 28th that each session start with a prayer for heavenly help, Hamilton countered that this might foster a public impression that embarrassments and dissensions within the convention had suggested this measure. According to legend, Hamilton also rebutted Franklin with the jest that the convention didn't need foreign aid.

Hamilton's first act in Philadelphia paid homage to Franklin. The sage had opposed salaries for executive-branch officers, hoping such a measure would produce civic-minded leaders, not government officials feeding at the public trough. Others

To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I want the people of Franklin County to know how much I care about them.

Frank said. He kept the convertible at a steady pace and they reached Taylorville at twelve o'clock. The town was a fair-sized one, and the streets swarmed with cars and people during the lunch-hour rush.