The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of… — 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
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — 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
