The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure