Share this page: They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1776 Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- Benjamin Franklin When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. -- Benjamin Franklin Necessity never made a good bargain. -- Poor Richard's Almanac (1735) At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; at forty, the judgement. -- Poor Richard's Almanac (1741) He that lives on hope will die fasting. -- Poor Richard's Almanac (1758) Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. -- Benjamin Franklin Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Benjamin Franklin He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas. -- Benjamin Franklin Courteous Reader, Remember that time is money. --Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748) We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. -- Speaking at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 There was never a good war or a bad peace. -- Letter to John Quincey, 11 September 1783 Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes" -- Letter to Jean Baptiste le Roy, 13 November 1789 Share this page:

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