6 Benjamin Franklin Quotes on History

Benjamin Franklin quotes on history

1. Poor Richard's Almanack (1733-1758)

29. Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.

    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

38. The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George the III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War.

39. Cited as being from a December 1913 speech by William Manley German in the Canadian House of Commons, on what he said Franklin claimed 'was the real cause of the War of Independence.'

40. ...in the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay no one.

41. Eripuit caelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. (He seized the lightning from the Gods and the scepter from the Tyrants.)-Turgot