Quote#Time
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington.…
Quote byBenjamin Franklin · 1706–1790
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Epistles, Letter to Washington (5 March 1780); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
— Benjamin Franklin
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