People Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

— Benjamin Franklin

Some people die at 25 and arent buried until 75.

— Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

— Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

— Benjamin Franklin

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

— Benjamin Franklin

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.

— Benjamin Franklin

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

— Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people…

— Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about…

— Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

— Benjamin Franklin

There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the…

— Benjamin Franklin

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.…

— Benjamin Franklin

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in…

— Benjamin Franklin

To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government…

— Benjamin Franklin

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first…

— Benjamin Franklin

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems…

— Benjamin Franklin

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us…

— Benjamin Franklin

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one…

— Benjamin Franklin

This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession…

— Benjamin Franklin

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General…

— Benjamin Franklin

Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like…

— 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

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought…

— 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

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

— Benjamin Franklin

Eat what you like, but dress for other people.

— Benjamin Franklin

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

— Benjamin Franklin

Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

“Some people are weatherwise, but most are otherwise.”

— Benjamin Franklin