You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
Benjamin Franklin... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
Benjamin FranklinTaxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
Benjamin FranklinThe importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.
Benjamin Franklin