Benjamin Franklin National

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

    “Oh, you’ll love the sea. There’s something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, you’ll love it all. It’s a glorious kind of world. I couldn’t live without it.”
    —Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)

    “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”
    —Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804)