Benjamin Franklin National

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin franklin, benjamin and/or national:

    “Necessity never made a good bargain.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said “Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,” and it must be so.”
    —Native American elder. Quoted in Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, ch. 8 (written 1771-1790, published 1868)

    “America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)