Benjamin Franklin National

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

    “Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say,
    ‘Like Samson I my thousands slay.’”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “No nation was ever ruined by trade.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “It is not unkind to say, from the standpoint of scenery alone, that if many, and indeed most, of our American national parks were to be set down on the continent of Europe thousands of Americans would journey all the way across the ocean in order to see their beauties.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)