 Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1748
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1742
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin
Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1739
If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1749
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738
Innocence is its own defense.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733
Fools multiply folly.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac
Experience holds a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
When reason preaches, if you won't hear her she'll box your ears.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1753
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738
If you wou'd not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738
Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, and where good laws are, much people flock thither.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1734
This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.
Benjamin Franklin
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Benjamin Franklin
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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...a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles ...is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.
Benjamin Franklin
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Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
Essays
Those who trade essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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