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Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard's Almanack — 1747
Category: Advice
Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography — 1771
Category: Advice
Human Felicity is produced not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.

Benjamin Franklin

Farrandís Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
Category: Constitutional Convention
A lady asked Dr. Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got - a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard's Almanack — 1742
Category: Advice
Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard's Almanack — 1735
Category: Public Speaking
Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.

Benjamin Franklin and George Whaley

Principles of Trade — 1774
Category: Commerce
No nation was ever ruined by trade, even seemingly the most disadvantageous.

Benjamin Franklin

at the signing of the Declaration of Independence — 1776
Category: Declaration of Independence
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

Reply to a Piece of Advice
Category: Family
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

Benjamin Franklin

Rules and Maxims for Promoting Matrimonial Happiness — 1730
Category: Marriage
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love; the Source of all that endearing Tenderness and Affection which arises from Relation and Affinity; the grand Point of Property; the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion; and, to sum up all, the Appointment of infinite Wisdom for these great and good Purposes.

Benjamin Franklin

1771
Category: Advice
Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

Benjamin Franklin

Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional Convention — 1787
Category: God
I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?

Benjamin Franklin

from his writings — 1758
Category: Budget
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography — 1771
Category: Human Nature
In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself.

Benjamin Franklin

Emblematical Representations — 1774
Category: Law
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

Benjamin Franklin

letter to Samuel Cooper — 1777
Category: Liberty
[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Benjamin Franklin

Historical Review of Pennsylvania — 1759
Category: Liberty
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

to Thomas Paine
Category: Religion and Morality
If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?

Benjamin Franklin

letter to John Alleyne — 1768
Category: Virtue
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Advice to Young Tradesman — 1748
Category: Advice
Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

An Address to the Public — 1789
Category: Slavery
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Benjamin Franklin

letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy — 1789
Category: Taxation
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard's Almanack — 1742
Category: Work
A Man may, if he know not how to save, keep his Nose to the Grindstone, and die not wirth a Groat at last.

Benjamin Franklin

The Busy-body, No. 3 — 1728
Category: Virtue
I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

On that Odd Letter of the Drum — 1730
Category: Government
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.

Benjamin Franklin

Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional Convention — 1787
Category: God
And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?

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