Famous quotes containing the words benjamin franklin, benjamin, franklin and/or national:
“If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading
or do things worth the writing.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“Here Skugg
Lies snug
As a bug
In a rug”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)