Benjamin Franklin Quotes

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

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The golden age never was the present age.

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God gives all things to industry.

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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Written when he was 16.

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The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.

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If you want something done, ask a busy person.

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How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

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Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

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At twenty years of age, the will reigns at thirty, the wife and at forty, the judgment.

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Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.

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Haste makes waste.

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The favor of the Great is no inheritance.

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's 'Historical Review,' 1759, appearing also in the body of the work. Frothingham Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413.

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Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

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Quarrels never could last long, If on one side only lay the wrong.

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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

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The nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

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The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

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A good Lawyer a bad Neighbour.

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There are lazy Minds as well as lazy Bodies.

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Grace thou thy House, and let not that grace thee.

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