The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. — Benjamin Franklin Love Copy Share Image
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin Death Copy Share Image
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. — Benjamin Franklin Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious… — Benjamin Franklin Partnership Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to… — Benjamin Franklin Anomalies Copy Share Image
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Abolition Copy Share Image
“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine… — benjamin franklin Copy Share Image
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin American founding fathers Copy Share Image
“I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have… — Benjamin Franklin Bishops Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Career Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Apprehension Copy Share Image
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,… — Benjamin Franklin Book Copy Share Image
“I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken… — Benjamin Franklin Fish Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Adversaries Copy Share Image
