Ben Franklin Republic Quote

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. that quote often comes up in the context of new. …when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests,. Ben franklin, among the eldest of the elder statesmen at the convention, represents wisdom, and the foresight that decades in the independence struggle had given him.

We have a republic, he conveyed, but it will be up to the people to keep it a republic. 13—the great american patriot benjamin franklin was asked, upon his emergence from the constitutional convention in philadelphia in 1787, what form of government the united states was going to have. Despite all the constitutional restraints of the new republic, franklin foresaw the incremental imperialism to come.

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And that duty will require constant vigilance in the coming centuries. Heartwarming and sobering at the same. 13—the great american patriot benjamin franklin was asked, upon his emergence from the constitutional convention in philadelphia in 1787, what form of government the united states was going to have. To which franklin supposedly responded, at once both witty and ominous: