Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Trade

• He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liberty, Politics, Conservative

• No nation was ever ruined by trade.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Liberty, Libertarian

  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.157

• People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Security And Freedom, People, Liberty

• Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Men, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin (2017). “The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Letters and Papers on Electricity, Philosophical Subjects, General Politics, Moral Subjects & the Economy, American Subjects Before & During the Revolution”, p.812, Madison & Adams

• Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liberty, Protection, Trade

• That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Simple, Creating, Issues

• Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Pain, Office

• The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tools, Investment, Trade

• He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honor, Gentleman, Knees

• He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Estates, Trade

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.2

• Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Revolution, England, Remember

• I know as well as thee that I am no poet born
  It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn
  If I make verses-'tis in spite
  Of nature and my stars I write.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Stars, Writing, Poet

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

• No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Trade, Ruined, Nations

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