American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
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He flew a kite in a storm and pulled electricity from the clouds, then crossed an ocean to coax a kingdom into bankrolling a revolution. Franklin built the prototype of American self-invention: printer to scientist to statesman, the only founder to sign all three founding documents.
Born in Massachusetts Bay in 1706, Franklin made his fortune in Philadelphia as a newspaper editor and printer, publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette at 23 and Poor Richard's Almanack under a pseudonym. His electrical experiments made him a major figure in the Enlightenment; he invented the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, and charted the Gulf Stream. As agent for the colonies in London, he led the fight to repeal the Stamp Act, then became the first U.S. ambassador to France, where his diplomacy secured the French aid that won the Revolution. He served as President of Pennsylvan…
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours?
There is something however in the experiments of points, sending off, or drawing on, the electrical fire, which has not been fully explained, and which I intend to supply...
Remember that time is money.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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