Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Giving

• When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspiring, Giving, Inspire

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

• The best doctor gives the least medicines.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Forgiveness, Respect

• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
  When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.
  Where liberty dwells there is my country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Giving Up, Believe

• If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.197, Applewood Books

• If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving Up, Losing, Danger

• Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving Up, Liberty, Security

• Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving Up, 4th Of July, Order

• Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving Up, Liberty, Sake

• Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin

  Running, Thinking, Debt Free

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.291, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

• To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

• It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving, Injury, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

• [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Government, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

• Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, People, Giving

• Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving Up, Safety, Liberty

• Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving, Joy, Pleasure

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humility, Pride, Giving

  Source: edsitement.neh.gov

• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, School, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.220, Penguin

• He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving Up, Safety, Liberty

• History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Art, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

• For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christian, Fate, Simple

  Misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. "The Franklin Prophecy: An Anti-Semitic Hoax Gets New Life on the Internet" by Jeffrey Belodoff and Elyce Milette, www.jewishpost.com.

• Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Conquer The World, Giving, Soldier

• If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Regret, Dirty, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.197, Applewood Books

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