I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy. — 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
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” — 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
To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — 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
“They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —written for the Pennsylvania… — 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
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — 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
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of… — 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
“Mr. President I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and 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. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — 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 Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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