... this work ethic: financial gain. Franklin also believed that only people of the nature which he encouraged could truly be free, which one could argue was his reason for encouraging virtuous' lifestyles of industrious, frugal, independent and public-spirited' people, as he strove for independence, or freedom, from British influence and order. Franklin is taken in history to have launched the ... King George III, as a leader, and proves him a disinterested and wholly inadequate statesman for such a great establishment as America: A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which ...

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