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“Then he added, in a passage destined to become famous, “The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“Fathers might drive the ploughs that till the fields of our future, but mothers provide the water, pull the weeds, and nurture the buds. Because men oversee the harvest, they take the credit for the crop. But without mothers, not one sprout would grow—whether the fruit be a child or a nation. It is mothers who nourish and guide each shoot toward the light without knowing what may blossom and what may wither on the vine. Without knowing which children will live or die.”
― Stephanie Dray, A Founding Mother

“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride; disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her,’ and immediately lapsed into silence.”
― Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle