He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Benjamin FranklinWhen you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
Benjamin FranklinWhen the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin FranklinGod heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin FranklinEducate 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 FranklinTags: self-control parenting
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
Benjamin FranklinTags: politics
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin FranklinTags: planning preparation
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
Benjamin FranklinI am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin FranklinTags: government general-welfare
god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!
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