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“To assess Franklin properly, we must view him, instead, in all his complexity. He was not a frivolous man, nor a shallow one, nor…

— Walter Isaacson

“biography of the great American Benjamin Franklin.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Philadelphia made me who I am.

— Danny Garcia

“But after I’d survived for so long on the scraps from my own emotional table, you spoiled me with a daily banquet of complicitous…

— Lionel Shriver

“It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to see the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Franklin embraced the idea that the new nation could survive only if the people who lived in it were virtuous.”

— Alexander Kennedy

“School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.”

— Susan Meissner

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you…

— Russel H Conwell

“Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret…

— Dale Carnegie

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

— Albert C. Barnes

Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men…

— James Madison