George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson were considered traitors by some.

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Steve Jobs seemed to be one-part Ben Franklin, one-part Thomas Edison, one-part Henry Ford.

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Roche Allen, Lennie Franklin, Ryan Martin, Thomas Regan, Lee Roberts and Paul Hadcroft - are all charged with arson being reckless as to whether life endangered and violent disorder.

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He says that in 18th-century America, there was even a proposal to pickle such prominent people as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and other founding fathers.

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It deserves a place in the firmament of history's most outstanding calls to arms, a number of which - from Thomas Paine and George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt to John F.

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It was brought over by the reformed Calvinists in the 1600s, made secular and practical by Benjamin Franklin, expressed as the "Pursuit of Happiness" by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, noticed by Alexis de Tocqueville, defined by Max Weber and written into the popular culture by Horatio Alger and others.

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