[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.
Benjamin FranklinThe good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
Benjamin FranklinThat man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.
Benjamin FranklinPeople who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
Benjamin Franklin