Best Ben Franklin Quotes

#1. This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.

Orson Scott Card

#2. He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

#3. Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

#4. As Ben Franklin said, "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." I

Steve Kamb

#5. Lighthouses are more useful than churches." - Ben Franklin

Edwin Herbert

#6. Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say,
Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Rachel Caine

#7. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - BEN FRANKLIN, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK T

Neil Gaiman

#8. (Ben) Franklin was never content to let opportunity find him.

H.W. Brands

#9. Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

Evan Bayh

#10. Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray

Monet Polny

#11. The Ben Franklin Effect: If weak ties do favors for us, they start to like us. Then they become even more likely to grant us additional favors in the future. Franklin decided that if he wanted to get someone in his side, he ought to ask for a favor. And he did.

Meg Jay

#12. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Narcotics Anonymous

#13. Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

#14. A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still

Dale Carnegie

#15. When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Walter Isaacson