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If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics...derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The pleasures of this world are rather from God’s goodness than our own merit (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can’t be good living where there is not good drinking. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System? (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
If you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy. (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and. the state in which you will find solid happiness (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Creditors have better memories than debtors (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Plough deep while sluggards sleep (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)