Benjamin Franklin Quotes
With a plan and careful attention to details, we might some day build something even more beautiful than this building. We might build a nation men have only dreamed of-a nation founded on freedom for all and built to last forever.
Daymon was the librarian of Carpenter Hall and had been the go between for French secret agent Julien Alexander Achard de Bonvouloir and the Americans. This was the first contact with the French Government to try to ascertain how they would react to an American rebellion against the English. Draper, Franklin and John Jay were risking their lives and under British law, committing treason. Draper provided Carpenter Hall for the secret meetings and acted as the scribe and sometime translator. This is one of the earliest quotations indicating serious thinking and planning for a revolution.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, Member of the Continental Congress & the Constitutional Convention, Governor of Pennsylvania, President of the Pennsylvania Assembly, U.S. Minister to France, Postmaster General of the American Colonies, Statement to Francis Daymon, Carpenter Hall, Philadelphia, 1775
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For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
The enthusiasm for the American Revolution caught the imagination of many throughout Europe. See {631977}.
Mackenzie was a British officer with whom Washington had become friends in the French & Indian War and in this letter, Washington was trying to explain the seriousness of the Boston rebellion for Britain.
The document was signed in his name by his ministers.
In 1924 the British imprisoned the Irish revolutionary Eamon De Valera. The then-Congressman demanded that the United States protest the imprisonment through diplomatic channels:
Most Canadians supported the English despite the letter.
The first sentence of this quotation was a favorite of Paine's. He had earlier used it in Common Sense in 1776. See {635451}.
His public written criticism of the King and government was unheard of at the time. See {621993} for the consequence.
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A polymath, he was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department, and the University of Pennsylvania.
