Benjamin Franklin

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/18/19
  

  ‘A republic, if you can keep it’: Did Ben Franklin really say Impeachment Day’s favorite quote?

  Here’s the history behind the quote.

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• 11/17/19
  

  Benjamin Franklin, Religious Revolutionary

  by J.D. Dickey

  Surprisingly, however, during America’s first major evangelical revival — the Great Awakening of the 1730s and ’40s — one of its most important figures had little use for religious conservatism. In fact, he wasn’t a preacher at all, but the reform-minded, freethinking Philadelphia printer Benjamin Franklin.

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• 10/13/19
  

  The Founders’ Furious Impeachment Debate--and Benjamin Franklin’s Modest Proposal

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  “This Magistrate is not the king! The people are the king!”

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• 1/27/19
  

  Trump, Benjamin Franklin, and the Long History of Calling Immigrants "Snakes"

  by Geoffrey Sill

  Trump’s unsupported allegations that immigrants are “animals, not people” may find a popular reception among many Americans because the association between immigrants, criminality, and reptility goes back to a period well before the founding of the nation. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/19
  

  Why Americans trust technology but not science

  by Joyce Chaplin

  Benjamin Franklin understood that the two go hand-in-hand.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7-30-17
  

  Benjamin Franklin Was America's First Political Leaker

  As leak accusations rock the White House, Anthony Scaramucci and Donald Trump should know that American politics' first major leak came at a formative moment—by a founding father.

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• SOURCE: dna India
  1-27-15
  

  Benjamin Franklin's life inspired me, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi

  "He was a politician, he was a political scientist, he was a social worker, he was a diplomat. And he came from an ordinary family. He could not even complete his education. But till today, his thoughts have an impact on American life."

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• 7-14-14
  

  This Founding Father Wasn't Always Loved

  by Thomas A. Foster

  Ben Franklin had a lot of sex.

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• 9-30-13
  

  Practical Wisdom, According to Messrs. Franklin and Emerson

  by Walter G. Moss

  In the United States today few of us value wisdom. This was not always the case.