All Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the… Barrel
- I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. Author
- To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. Affliction
- Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. Child
- The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. Deserve
- You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. Enemies
- The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. Candle
- Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic… Asked
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old… All
- Laws without morals are in vain. Law
- A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. Corn
- I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into… Gold
- To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must… Amused
- A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error. Error
- In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no… Build
- Let the experiment be made. Experiment
- Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of… Atrocious
- I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick,… Apprehension
- Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature. Atrocious
- The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families… Age
- Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness… All
- A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine. Country
- The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. Atheism
- Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in… According
- Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the… Appeared