Quote about Ben Franklin?

Question

I need a qoute about Benjamin Franklin from someone from that time period. ; )

And the source.

Answer 1

"He snatched the lightning shaft from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants"

Is a qupte fro, A.R.J.Turgot about BEn franklin.

Research A.R.J Tyront and youll see he was from Bens time

Answer 2

These are all in the back matter of the Norton Critical Edition of Franklin's Autobiography, so you may just want to get to your local library soon and look at the them....:

CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS

    David Hume · David Hume to Franklin, Edinburgh, May 10, 1762

    Mather Byles · Mather Byles to Franklin, Boston, late 1765

    Franklin in the Cockpit · The Pennsylvania Gazette Report, 1774

    House of Lords, February 1, 1775 · William Pitt, Lord Chatham vs. John Montague, Lord Sandwich, on Franklin

    Edmund Burke · Edmund Burke to Count Patrick D'Arcy, October 5, 1775

    Peter Oliver · Excerpt from Origins · Progress of the American Rebellion

    Richard Price · Richard Price to Franklin, May 1790

    Anonymous · Excerpt from The Bee, February 27, 1793

    John Adams · John Adams on Franklin, May 15, 1811

A letter from John Adams to Jefferson:

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/...

Some other stuff to go on:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:1d6...

Answer 3

Mr Franklin said this to a young man seeking advice: "Always seek an older woman for love--they don't tell, they don't swell and they're grateful as h**l"  Thanks Mr Franklin.