Quote by Walter Isaacson

“I should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, I had form'd most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club…

— Benjamin Franklin

“what was their relevance, how could they help us and inform the way we worked together.”

— Ben Hunt-Davis

“Franklin’s own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence,”

— Walter Isaacson

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

— Alexander Kennedy

“Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“biography of the great American Benjamin Franklin.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“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

“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for…

— Black Elk

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead…

— Geoffrey Wood

“It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of…

— Walter Isaacson

“He must protect the lives and interests of the people, appeal to his fellow citizens' patriotic interests, and, in general, set the welfare of…

— Anonymous

“Indeed, in addition to its lessons of thrift, industry, and prudence, Franklin's autobiography tells us every man should be part of a social group,…

— Keith Ferrazzi