Truer words were never spoken.
Ben Franklin didn’t say that.
I can’t get the link to work. A friend gave me a framed Ben Franklin quote for Christmas. Let me guess, he never said beer is proof god loves us…
Hey, it’s not like I wrote the article, I just posted the link. I did find a site that attributed the quote to Franklin but they didn’t cite their source. But when all is said and done, does it really matter? Come on, they also quote Homer Simpson and he’s not even real. At least, I don’t think he’s real!
That quote is just a marketing bastardization of something Franklin wrote about wine in a letter:
“We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”
It is also well known that Ben Franklin was almost a tea totaler, rarely drinking alcohol.
“The problem with Internet quotes is you can’t always verify the source” --Abraham Lincoln
Does it matter? Probably not much, but it must be the most misattributed quote about beer and there are so many good ones.
He did say - “Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”
But from what I’ve read, Ben didn’t like beer too much.
This is the winner.
“Use the Force, Harry” - Gandalf
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
It no longer matters if Ben Franklin said it or didn’t.
Go to a wine forum and tell them that! ;D
My favorite Ben Franklin quote: “And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? Why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red?”
According to ol’ Ben, “the Tawneys” also included Asians (all kinds), and he felt that the other “nonwhite” peoples we should exclude from America included Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians, Swedes, and all Germans except the Saxons.
I have seen it printed on T shirts, so it has to be true!
I completely disagree. It matters.
I love this one. 
Well, it may matter to you but you’re too late. That horse is out of the barn.
Again, I completely disagree. It’s all about education.
Check out this page. The owner of the store is a friend of mine, when I looked at the page before he launched I gave him my thoughts, and he changed the quote. ;D
https://www.maltandvine.com/webstore.php
[quote]“Benjamin Franklin never said “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”” -Tom Schmidlin
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I completely agree. Truth isn’t dependent on popular opinion.
“We both have truths. Are yours the same as mine.” - P. Pilot as as quoted by Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Not really disagreeing with your position but in the society many of us on the forum live in you would be hard pressed to prove what “truth” is.
Paul
In terms of this one, it’s been proven. And I beg you not to quote Android Lou Weber! 