Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

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

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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 region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.