Benjamin Franklin Quote

[New Jersey is like] a beer barrel, tapped at both ends, with all the live beer running into Philadelphia and New York.


Attributed to Franklin by Abram Browning in a Speech (Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876)


[New Jersey is like] a beer barrel, tapped at both ends, with all the live beer running into Philadelphia and New York.

[New Jersey is like] a beer barrel, tapped at both ends, with all the live beer running into Philadelphia and New York.

[New Jersey is like] a beer barrel, tapped at both ends, with all the live beer running into Philadelphia and New York.

[New Jersey is like] a beer barrel, tapped at both ends, with all the live beer running into Philadelphia and New York.