Benjamin Franklin citations célèbres
“Bien faire en faisant ce qui est bon.”
Doing Well by Doing Good.
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L'un des plus fameux slogans de Benjamin Franklin cité dans la préface par Luc-François Salvador, Chairman and CEO de Sogeti
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
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Tiré de On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor (1766)
They who can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Franklin cite une lettre de 1755 de l'Assemblée de Pennsylvanie au gouverneur de cet état. Bien qu'elle lui soit souvent attribuée, il n'est pas clairement établi que la phrase soit de lui.
Benjamin Franklin: Citations en anglais
Written by Henry Stuber as part of a biographical sketch of Franklin appended to a 1793 edition of Franklin's autobiography and sometimes reprinted with it in the 19th century. It is frequently misattributed to Franklin himself.
Misattributed
Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007.
