Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.