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Not who you're looking for? Others named Benjamin Franklin: American polymath and statesman (1706–1790) · 1974 miniseries · 2002 television series · 1938 book by Carl Van Doren

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This is the page for the British surgeon. For the American founding father, see Benjamin Franklin. Surgeon-General Sir Benjamin Franklin (1844 – 17 February 1917) was a British army surgeon. After being educated at University College, London and in Paris, he entered the Indian Medical Service in April 1869, and worked at Lucknow and Simla. In 1894 he was appointed personal physician to Lord Elgin, the Viceroy, and held this position until 1899. He was appointed Director General of the Indian Medical Service on 2 December 1901, and was thus the highest ranked officer in the military medical service in British India. The position was combined with that of Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, and ranked as a major general, though he also received the personal promotion to the rank of surgeon-general on the day of appointment.

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Notable quotes

“I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.”
— "Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion" (1728)
“[A] great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.”
— "Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One"; The Public Advertiser (September 11, 1773)
“God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'”
— Letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789); reported in Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1907), Volume 10, p. 72; often quoted as, "Where liberty dwells, there is my country".
“It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.”
— Poor Richard's Almanack (1758), “The Way to Wealth”
“Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.”
— Letter to Charles Thomson, 11 July 1765; also quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). The last sentence is sometimes misquoted as "If we can get rid of the former, we can get rid of the latter".
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
— Statement at the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776-07-04), quoted as an anecdote in The Works of Benjamin Franklin by Jared Sparks (1840). However, this had earlier been attributed to Richard Penn in Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty Years (1811, p. 116). In 1801, "If we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately" appears in the English play Life by Frederick Reynolds (Life, Frederick Reynolds, in a collection by Mrs Inchbald, 1811, Google Books first published in 1801 and the remark was later attributed to 'An American General' by Reynolds in his 1826 memoir [http://books.google.com/books?id=_MQEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA358&dq=general's p.358. A comparable pun on "hang alone … hang together" appears in Dryden's 1717 The Spanish Fryar Google Books. The pun also appears in an April 14, 1776 letter from Carter Braxton to Landon Carter,Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Vol.1 (1921), p.421, as "a true saying of a Wit — We must hang together or separately."

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This is the page for the British surgeon. For the American founding father, see Benjamin Franklin.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Benjamin Franklin: American polymath and statesman (1706–1790) · 1974 miniseries · 2002 television series · 1938 book by Carl Van Doren

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