Founder's Quotes - Benjamin Franklin on Children

Patriot Post - Others ^ | 10/15/2007 | Benjamin Franklin

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"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Benjamin Franklin

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"An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it."
John Paul Jones (letter to Gouverneur Morris, 2 September 1782)

"It will not be doubted, that with reference either to individual, or National Welfare, Agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as Nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent; and renders the cultivation of the Soil more and more, an object of public patronage."

George Washington (Eighth Annual Message to Congress, 1796)

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PING

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"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

This is great advice. Our politics would be different if the ADULTS would heed these words.

[highball]

Of course, Franklin’s own son was on the wrong side of the Revolutionary War.... ;)

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"In a life of so much accomplishment, Benjamin Franklin had his most devastating disappointment in his son William's choice to remain loyal to the King during the American Revolution. "Nothing," he said at war's end, "has ever hurt me so much ... as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son." Loyalists comprised some 20% of the white American population in the colonies during the war, and their ranks included men and women, rich and poor, immigrants and native-born. But Benjamin chose to reject his mother country, and his son chose to disobey his father. Benjamin never forgave William for his "disloyalty."

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[metesky]

That Bill Franklin. What a... dare I say it? What a bastard.

[highball]

I know - I was really just making a joke.

But it’s always worth a reminder. We like to look back on the Revolutionary War as a unified, singular effort against a common enemy, when it was anything but.

[karnage]

Clearly, Ben would have been unfit to be President - didn’t have the support of his kid!

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From my understanding, the people during the revolutionary war were divided into the typical political thirds; a third wanted it, a third did not, a third didn’t know what to think.

One third was more determined than the others, Thank God.