Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not. — Benjamin Franklin Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. — Benjamin Franklin Doctor Copy Share Image
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin Freedom and liberty Copy Share Image
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. — Benjamin Franklin Childhood Copy Share Image
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us. — Benjamin Franklin Christianity Copy Share Image
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?" — Benjamin Franklin America Copy Share Image
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her maskVice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask — Benjamin Franklin Mask Copy Share Image
“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then… — Benjamin Franklin Family Copy Share Image
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of… — Benjamin Franklin Atheism 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 Constitution Copy Share Image
“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have… — 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 Corruption Copy Share Image
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to… — Benjamin Franklin Cooking Copy Share Image
Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not… — Benjamin Franklin Friendship Copy Share Image
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your… — Benjamin Franklin Body Copy Share Image
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth… — Benjamin Franklin Absurdities Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image