You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
Benjamin FranklinThere is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
Benjamin FranklinDisdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
Benjamin FranklinIf by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.
Benjamin Franklin