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)

    The book borrower of real stature whom we envisage here proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures and by the deaf ear which he turns to all reminders from the everyday world of legality as by his failure to read these books.
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

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

    I came here for one thing only, to try to help national Ireland—and if there is no such thing in existence then the sooner I pay for my illusions the better.
    Roger Casement (1864–1916)