Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790) v NC N NY sc NE M 0一不y> UNITE OR DIEBenjamin Franklin(1706-1790) • "Nothing but money is sweeter than honey ." Franklin wrote that. But for him, money was merely a means to an end. At age 42, he retired from business, a rich man, to devote himself to public causes and scientific experiments, library, a fire insurance organization, a night watch, a city hospital, a city college, (the future University of Pennsylvania), and the American Philosophical Society, which still meets in Independence Hall. Franklin's portrait, with lightning flashing inside, is surrounded by the words: "scientist, citizen, inventor, writer, soldier, diplomat, leader, statesman, printer, essayist" To the right is his famous quote at the 1776 Declaration of Independence meeting, "Gentlemen, we must now all hang together, or we shall most assuredly hang separately." Franklin's portrait, with lightning flashing inside, is surrounded by the words: "scientist, citizen, inventor, writer, soldier, diplomat, leader, statesman, printer, essayist" To the right is his famous quote at the 1776 Declaration of Independence meeting, "Gentlemen, we must now all hang together, or we shall most assuredly hang separately