You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin FranklinWe 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 FranklinIt seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
Benjamin Franklin... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
Benjamin Franklin