Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
321
AUTHOR:
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION:
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
ATTRIBUTION:
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, speech in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1787.—James Madison, Journal of the Federal Convention, ed. E. H. Scott, p. 741 (1893).
