Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery. — Benjamin Franklin Flattery Copy Share Image
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing. — Benjamin Franklin Funny Copy Share Image
He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth. — 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 Constitution Copy Share Image
“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have… — 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 Corruption Copy Share Image
The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her… — Benjamin Franklin Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving… — Benjamin Franklin Doing good 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
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child,… — Benjamin Franklin Children Copy Share Image
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage… — Benjamin Franklin Advantage Copy Share Image
When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them… — Benjamin Franklin Another year Copy Share Image
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we… — Benjamin Franklin Constitution Copy Share Image
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making… — Benjamin Franklin Doing good 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
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