1. Franklin, Jefferson and Paine
... to thoughtfully manage his business, and the overriding motivation for 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 ... Independence , (primarily his work, despite alterations by other members of the Continental Congress) arguably the single most definitive code of conduct for American culture in historical, politi...
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