To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -The 5000… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
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