Benjamin Franklin Middle

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin franklin, benjamin and/or middle:

“If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading
or do things worth the writing.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected—those, precisely, who need the laws’s protection most!—and listens to their testimony.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)