Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
The school looks very good. The uniforms are a good thing. It will be easy for my wife. She won't have to fight about clothes.
It is the observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
Is there any thing Men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
Anger and Folly walk cheek-by-jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.