The Summer of 1787 Quotes

“by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions…which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.”
― David O. Stewart, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution

“As Dr. Franklin progressed through Philadelphia’s republican streets, his regal trappings drove home the message that honor in America grew from talent, not birth.”
― David O. Stewart, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution

“Through a long life, Franklin had been forced by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions . . . which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.”
― David O. Stewart, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution