We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
Benjamin FranklinWrite to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
Benjamin FranklinGrievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.
Benjamin Franklin