Benjamin Franklin

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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter where ever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor and to others who are with in his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether abusurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity amoung the other comforts of life.
If you desire instruction and improvement from others, you should not at the same time express yourself fixed in your present opinions. Modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation will leave you undisturbed in the possesion of your errors.
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Chess playing diplomacy with Lady Howe
Frankin abused in the Court of St. James
the Committee of Congress negotiating with Lord Howe
Franklin, Adams, & Jefferson - drafting the Declaration of Independence
presenting the Declaration to Congress
Franklin a hit in the French Court
Franklin received by the King and Queen of France
Peace Treaty of Paris, 1783
Constitutional Convention