For Having Lived Long, I Have Experienced

If A Man Would Reap Praise, You Must Sow The Seeds, Gentle Words And Useful Deeds.

Eat What You Like, But Dress For Other People.

I Am A Mortal Enemy To Arbitrary Government And Unlimited Power.

"we Hold These Truths To Be Sacred And Undeniable" In A Draft Of The Declaration Of Independence Changes It Instead Into An Assertion Of Rationality. The Scientific Mind Of Franklin Drew On The Scientific Determinism Of Isaac Newton And The Analytic Empiricism Of David Hume And Gottfried Leibniz. In What Became Known As "hume's Fork" The Latters' Theory Distinguished Between Synthetic Truths That Describe Matters Of Fact, And Analytic Truths That Are Self-evident By Virtue Of Reason And Definition.

Justice Is As Strictly Due Between Neighbor Nations As Between Neighbor Citizens.