Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Changes

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
 
Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
 
From: The Quotes Page

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Franklin

Facts about Franklin

Benjamin Franklin is known for his part in the writing of the US Constitution and the discovery of electricity, but he was also a lifetime student. Franklin was always seeking knowledge and besides being a politician, he was very active in Philadelphia community.

Here are some little know facts about Benjamin Franklin:

Vegetarian
Printer
Publisher
Postmaster
Lead an environmental protest against the polluting of slaughter houses, and tan yards
Founder of the American Philosophical Society
Soldier in the Pennsylvania Militia
Founded an Insurance company to insure houses against fires
President of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery