Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
280 Quotes
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
Benjamin Franklin
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
Benjamin Franklin
"A place for everything, everything in its place."
Benjamin Franklin
"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."
Benjamin Franklin
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Benjamin Franklin
"I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised."
Benjamin Franklin
"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know."
Benjamin Franklin
"Reckless youth makes rueful age."
Benjamin Franklin
"But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin
"A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
Benjamin Franklin
"Handle your tools without mittens."
Benjamin Franklin
"An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife."
Benjamin Franklin
"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion."
Benjamin Franklin
"Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it."
Benjamin Franklin
"If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting."
Benjamin Franklin
"Some are weather-wise some are otherwise."
Benjamin Franklin
"If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles."
Benjamin Franklin
"What maintains one vice would bring up two children."
Benjamin Franklin
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin
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