Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

The proud hate pride - in others.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

Mine is better than ours.

The best is the cheapest.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.