June 23, 2009
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People I would Have Like to Known

Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin has to near the top of the list. He was an intellectual, political activist, and inventor. In his time (1706 to 1790) inventors were more like todays rock stars then todays inventor. He formed the first fire department in America, and invented the Franklin stove, medical catheter, lightning rod, swimfins, glass armonica, and bifocals. He placed all his designs and inventions in the public domain, and clearly indicated in his writings his preference in such matters: "... as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." We would not have one the war without the French on our side, and would not have had the French without Franklin.

Some of my favorite quotes of his are
"All would live long, but none would be old."
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price."
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"You may delay, but time will not."
"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
"Fish and visitors smell in three days."
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
"Do not squander time - for that is the stuff life is made of."
"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to prosper."
"Beware the hobby that eats."
"When you're finished changing, you're finished."
"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."

Theodore Roosevelt
I have always been fascinated with Teddy. He is just a character that is larger then life, as the youngest president is US history from the assassination of President McKinley. He was a man that made whatever job he had, more important then it should have been. Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy he would wait till after hours when his boss was off so he was in charge to make changes and orders. Within the Republican Party he was a Progressive reformer who sought to bring his party's conservative mindset into the 20th century. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and as a "trust buster" broke up numerous large corporations. His "Square Deal" promised a fair shake for the average citizen, including regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs.

Abraham Lincoln
Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was an American politician who served as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery and oversaw the Union war effort during the American Civil War. He selected the generals and approved their strategy; selected senior civilian officials; supervised diplomacy, patronage and party operations; rallied public opinion through messages and speeches such as the Gettysburg Address; and took personal charge of plans for the abolition of slavery and the Reconstruction of the Union. He was the first U.S. President to be assassinated.
I think I really would like to meet him because more then any other president, he took an open mind into the presidency, and you can see his impressions of African Americans changing during his presidency. He was always open to re-evaluate a view.

Mohandas Gandhi
An English-educated lawyer, Gandhi first employed his ideas of peaceful civil disobedience in the Indian community's struggle for civil rights in South Africa. Upon his return to India, Gandhi organised poor farmers and labourers to protest oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination. Leading the Indian National Congress, Gandhi led a nationwide campaign for the alleviation of poverty, for the liberation of Indian women, for brotherhood amongst communities of differing religions and ethnicity, for an end to untouchability and caste discrimination, and for the economic self-sufficiency of the nation, but above all for Swaraj ? the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in the disobedience of the salt tax through the 400 kilometer (248 miles) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and in an open call for the British to Quit India in 1942. He spent his final years fighting for communal peace and harmony amongst Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.

Martin Luther King, Jr
The most famous leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. Considered a peacemaker throughout the world for his promotion of nonviolence and racial equality, he received the Nobel Peace Prize before he was assassinated in 1968. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1977, and Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor. King's most influential and well-known speech is "I Have A Dream."

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