Benjamin Franklin Quotes
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
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