He seized the lightning from Heaven and the scepter from the Tyrants.
— Turgot on Benjamin Franklin
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• He seized the lightning from Heaven and the scepter from the Tyrants.
• Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, as quoted in The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review (November 1803 - April 1804; 1811), p.167. This has also been quoted in several other variants of Latin or French expression, and been translated into English in various ways. Though it has probably incorrectly been cited as a remark of 1775, the earliest published reference to it appears to have occurred in April 1778.
• Variants:
• Eripuit fulmen coelo, mox sceptra tyrannis.
• Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis.
• He snatched lightning from the sky and scepters from tyrants.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Benjamin Franklin" (Quotes about Franklin)
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Name: West - Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (ca 1816)
Summary: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
Description: American-British painter and draftsperson
Date: circa 1816 date QS:P571,+1816-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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