Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall hang separately.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

What you seem to be, be really.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

You may delay, but time will not.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

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

Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...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.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.