*Eripuit Coelo fulmen, mox Sceptra Tyrannis.* Statement in Latin about [Benjamin Franklin](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin), as quoted in [The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review](http://books.google.com/books?id=Q-ERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167&dq=%22Eripuit+Coelo+fulmen+sceptrumque+tyrannis%22&ei=YyJvScTUG5HKMuCSgMwM)[, Vol. X (March 1811)](http://books.google.com/books?id=Q-ERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167&dq=%22Eripuit+Coelo+fulmen+sceptrumque+tyrannis%22&ei=YyJvScTUG5HKMuCSgMwM) [Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Robert_Jacques_Turgot,_Baron_de_Laune) ([10 May](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/10_May) [1727](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1727) – [18 March](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/18_March) [1781](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1781)), usually referred to as simply "**Turgot**", was a French economist and statesman. **He seized the **[lightning](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lightning)** from **[Heaven](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heaven)** and the scepter from the **[Tyrants](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tyrants)**.** ** **