Top 100 Franklin Benjamin Sayings
#1. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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#2. The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
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#5. To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
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#8. The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
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#9. Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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#10. A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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#11. I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.
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#12. Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
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#13. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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#14. Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?
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#17. Among the numerous luxuries of the table ... coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions ... is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.
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#18. Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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#19. Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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#20. A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want a horse the rider was lost; for want of the rider the battle was lost.
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#21. Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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#22. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.
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#24. The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
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#25. Way back in 1755 Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." With
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#26. Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth ... thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly ...
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#27. Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)
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#29. I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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#30. It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
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#31. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
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#33. Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas.
One of the main characters in 'Nothing is Lost' says that. She probably didn't know that the source was Benjamin Franklin.
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#37. And therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,
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#38. In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,
but by the Lack of it.
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#39. No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
#40. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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#42. To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
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#45. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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#48. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.
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#50. If dost thou love life, then Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
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#51. of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
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#52. If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
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#53. Take courage, Mortal ... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
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#55. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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#56. Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
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#58. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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#60. One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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#62. It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
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#64. Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion ...
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#66. For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
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#68. 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
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#69. O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
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#70. In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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#72. Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
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#74. To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
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#75. Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ...
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#76. Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.
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#77. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it
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#78. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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#81. It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
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#83. The same man who will quote from Benjamin Franklin on thrift for the house organ would be horrified if consumers took these maxims to heart and started putting more money into savings and less into installment purchases.
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#84. Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
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#86. Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics ... derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.
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#87. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
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#88. Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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#91. War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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#92. In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm.
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#94. Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
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#97. I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.
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#98. The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
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