18th Century Zombies - Found on etsy! Plemon Studios has some great work, and I love these portraits of our Founding Fathers.
Zombie George Washington
Zombie Thomas Jefferson
Zombie Benjamin Franklin
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For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country …
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America … He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.
"— Benjamin Franklin in a letter to his daughter
(Source: greatseal.com)
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
— Benjamin Franklin
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing."
either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing."
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738
July 26, 1775
The Second Continental Congress establishes the Post Office and assigns Benjamin Franklin as the first US postmaster general.
Send out a handwritten letter today!
To David Hartley, 1775
Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1775.
I wish as ardently as you can do for peace, and should rejoice exceedingly in co-operating with you to that end. But every ship from Britain brings some intelligence of new measure that tend more and more to exasperate; and it seems to me that until you have found by dear experience the reducing us by force impracticable, you will think nothing fair and reasonable. We have as yet resolved only on defensive measures. If you would recall your forces and stay at home, we should meditate nothing to injure you. A little time so given for cooling on both sides would have excellent effects. But you will goad and provoke us. You despise us too much; and you are insensible of the Italian adage, that there is no little enemy. I am persuaded the body of the British people are our friends; but they are changeable, and by your lying Gazettes may soon be made our enemies. Our respect for them will proportionally diminish; and I see clearly we are on the high road to mutual enmity, hatred, and detestation.
A separation will of course be inevitable. ‘Tis a million of pities so fair a plan as we have hitherto been engaged in for increasing strength and empire with public felicity, should be destroyed by the mangling hands of a few blundering ministers. It will not be destroyed: God will protect and prosper it: You will only exclude yourselves from any share in it. We hear that more ships and troops are coming out. We know you may do us a great deal of mischief, but we are determined to bear it patiently as long as we can; but if you flatter yourselves with beating us into submission, you know neither the people nor the country…
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From Benjamin Franklin
via - Not Your Usual Founding Father - Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin - Edmund Morgan
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Marry your Son when you will, but your Daughter when you can."
— Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1734
