Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
Benjamin FranklinHe that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin FranklinYou can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.
Benjamin FranklinIn 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.
Benjamin Franklin