Arms Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable…

— Benjamin Franklin

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private…

— Benjamin Franklin

I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self-…

— Thomas Jefferson

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man…

— Orison Swett Marden

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all…

— John Adams

The excellence of a man is a benefit to the public.

— Proverb

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home,…

— Plutarch

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other,…

— Samuel Gridley Howe

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of…

— Samuel Adams

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

— Anonymous

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

— Theodore Roosevelt

...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom.…

— Xenophanes