Quote

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
Autobiographer
Chess Player
Designer
Dilettante
Diplomat
Economist
Editor
Freemason
Inventor
Journalist
Librarian
Musician
Physicist
Boston
Massachusetts
Silence Dogood
Ben Franklin
The First American
Franklin
Poor Richard
Government
Kind
Dishonesty
Good
Taxation
People
Frequently
Otherwise
Easily
War
Fall

More quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Image
What I am to be, I am now becoming.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Time is money, be a better you.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
He that lives well, is learned enough.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Lost time can never be found again
Benjamin Franklin
Image
When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
A light purse is a heavy curse.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
Benjamin Franklin