Benjamin Franklin Quotes About History

• The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

• You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Long, History

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.109, Regnery Publishing

• Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  History, Done, Historian

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.278, Oxford University Press, USA

• The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, History, Tests

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