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It is a heroic name, as heroic and American in its own way as the name of Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley or the name of Benjamin Franklin.
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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It is a heroic name, as heroic and American in its own way as the name of Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley or the name of Benjamin Franklin.
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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Among those who regularly sit at the Autocrat's table is a schoolboy, whom he calls Benjamin Franklin, and to whom he tells this beautiful story of the Cubes of Truth.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, we have the best economic system among the advanced economies, "if we can keep it."
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Moreover, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, a nation that loves itself will have no rivals.
Bruce Fein: American Exceptionalism Is Un-American Bruce Fein 2010
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Moreover, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, a nation that loves itself will have no rivals.
Bruce Fein: American Exceptionalism Is Un-American Bruce Fein 2010
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Inasmuch as the turkey is a rather noble animal in spite of the modern epithet associated to its name Benjamin Franklin, nothing less, advocated for the Wild Turkey as the US national bird instead of the Bald Eagle I was led to think about these cruel analogies reading about the political misfortunes of Peru these days.
The suicide of Peru 2006
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Inasmuch as the turkey is a rather noble animal in spite of the modern epithet associated to its name Benjamin Franklin, nothing less, advocated for the Wild Turkey as the US national bird instead of the Bald Eagle I was led to think about these cruel analogies reading about the political misfortunes of Peru these days.
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Many of us have recalled Benjamin Franklin's wise counsel.
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Yet no one has ever ventured to call Benjamin Franklin an Englishman.
George Washington Lodge, Henry Cabot 1889
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