Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
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
Forfeit
Neither
Willing
Security
Liberty
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
Benjamin Franklin
Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
Benjamin Franklin
Man is a tool-making animal
Benjamin Franklin
Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
Benjamin Franklin
There is always room for the man of force.
Benjamin Franklin
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
Benjamin Franklin
Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
Benjamin Franklin
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
Benjamin Franklin
Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
Benjamin Franklin
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
Benjamin Franklin
The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
Benjamin Franklin
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Benjamin Franklin
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
Benjamin Franklin
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful
Benjamin Franklin
He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
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
When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
Benjamin Franklin
