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Don't go American? Why not??
Franklin is probably the greatest American that ever lived. In a time before there was an "America", he was the person that first got us thinking of ourselves as "Americans" and not just "Virginians", "New Yorkers", "Rhode Islanders", etc.
He was incredibly talented as an inventor (the pot bellied stove), as a scientist (first ascribing the charge of the electron (he guessed wrong)), as a statesman (almost singlehandedly responsible for getting France to help us in the revolutionary war, with out whose help we probably would have lost), and as a writer (writing the famous 'Poor Richard's Almanac).
How many people can you say all that about?
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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