Giving Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

— Benjamin Franklin

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

— Benjamin Franklin

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

— Benjamin Franklin

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

— Benjamin Franklin

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

— Benjamin Franklin

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

— Benjamin Franklin

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

— Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

— Benjamin Franklin

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith...

— Benjamin Franklin

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

— Benjamin Franklin

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

— Benjamin Franklin

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

— Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

— Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may…

— Benjamin Franklin

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and…

— Benjamin Franklin

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your…

— Benjamin Franklin

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But…

— Benjamin Franklin

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so…

— Benjamin Franklin

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the…

— Benjamin Franklin

If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,…

— Benjamin Franklin

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the…

— Benjamin Franklin

The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge,…

— Benjamin Franklin

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected…

— Benjamin Franklin

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet…

— Benjamin Franklin

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your…

— Benjamin Franklin

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on…

— Benjamin Franklin

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as…

— Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

— Benjamin Franklin

“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider

— Benjamin Franklin

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

— Benjamin Franklin

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

— Benjamin Franklin

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

— Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much…

— Benjamin Franklin

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought…

— Benjamin Franklin