Benjamin Franklin National

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

    Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; anything that is national is not scientific.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)