Benjamin Franklin National

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

    “Opportunity is the great bawd.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “Where there are no rights, there are no duties. To tell the truth is thus a duty; but it is a duty only in respect to one who has a right to the truth.”
    —Henri Benjamin Constant De Rebecque (1767–1830)

    “The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)