Benjamin Franklin

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

— Benjamin Franklin

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

— Benjamin Franklin

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

— Benjamin Franklin

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

— Benjamin Franklin

A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.

— Benjamin Franklin

“if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.”

— Benjamin Franklin

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

— Benjamin Franklin

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

— Benjamin Franklin

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

— Benjamin Franklin

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

— Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

— Benjamin Franklin

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

— Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

— Benjamin Franklin

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

— Benjamin Franklin

“Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.

— Benjamin Franklin

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

— Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Poor Richard”

— Benjamin Franklin

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

— Benjamin Franklin

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

— Benjamin Franklin

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

— Benjamin Franklin

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

— Benjamin Franklin

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

— Benjamin Franklin

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast

— Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

— Benjamin Franklin

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

— Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

— Benjamin Franklin

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

— Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

— Benjamin Franklin

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

— Benjamin Franklin

A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

— Benjamin Franklin