Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Duty

• Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Optimistic, Being Thankful, World

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

• To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humble, Humility, Modesty

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.68, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Heart, Hands

• Virtues, of ...
  Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Justice, Benefits, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin, Alan Houston (2004). “Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

• Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded,
  but is commanded because it is beneficial.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Duty, Beneficial

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.29, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Divine, Duty, Mankind

  Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”

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