Benjamin Franklin National

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

    “We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.”
    —Paul West (b. 1930)