Historian Walter Isaacson tells us that Franklin, "had faith in the wisdom of the common man and felt that a new nation would draw its strength from what he called 'the middling people.'"
"The essence of Franklin is that he was a civic-minded man. He cared more about public behavior than inner piety, and he was more interested in building the City of Man than the City of God."
(Benjamin Franklin, An American Life)
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