Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
Benjamin Franklin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Best
Cultivates
Germany
Forth
Brought
America
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.
Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
Benjamin Franklin
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
Benjamin Franklin
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.
Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
Benjamin Franklin
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Benjamin Franklin
It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
Benjamin Franklin
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin
He that drinks fast, pays slow.
Benjamin Franklin
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
Benjamin Franklin
A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
Benjamin Franklin
An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
Benjamin Franklin
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
Benjamin Franklin
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
Benjamin Franklin
