"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"
— Benjamin Franklin

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal."
— Benjamin Franklin

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

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
— Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
— Benjamin Franklin

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
— Benjamin Franklin

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin

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

"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Well done is better than well said."
— Benjamin Franklin

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

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
— Benjamin Franklin

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

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
— Benjamin Franklin

"There was never a bad peace or a good war."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
— Benjamin Franklin

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle."
— Benjamin Franklin

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

"You may delay, but time will not."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Never confuse Motion with Action."
— Benjamin Franklin (The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin)

"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."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
— Benjamin Franklin

"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."
— Benjamin Franklin

"energy and persistence conquers all things"
— Benjamin Franklin

"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away"
— Benjamin Franklin

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

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
— Benjamin Franklin

"When you are finished changing, you're finished."
— Benjamin Franklin

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
— Benjamin Franklin

"When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet."
— Benjamin Franklin

"'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
— Benjamin Franklin

"I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Lost time is never found again"
— Benjamin Franklin

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

"I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel"
— Benjamin Franklin

"Contentment makes poor men rich,
Discontent makes rich men poor."
— Benjamin Franklin