Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 3

• Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Apology, Liberty, Small Gestures

  Benjamin Franklin, Carl Japikse (2003). “Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School”, p.128, Frog Books

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• Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sound, Argument

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• To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

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  Girl, Women, 4th Of July

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• Half the truth is often a great lie.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Truth, Lying

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

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  Success, Humility, Order

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• When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, Fear God, Poor Richard

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

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• Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Taken, Government, Support

  "On Freedom of Speech and the Press". Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Gazette, November 17, 1737.

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• A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humanity, Wealth, Spouse

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• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, People, Servant

  "The Real Benjamin Franklin".

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• Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

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  Mind, Return, Habit

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• A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

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  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Recovery

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing

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• When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

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  Debt, Slave

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• The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

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  Men, Crowds, He Man

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• The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Politics

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• Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.

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  Children, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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• I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

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  Wise, Religious, Prayer

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• Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

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  War, Men, Tyrants

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• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

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  Two, Dry, Green

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.245, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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  Wise, 4th Of July, Anger

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

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• Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

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  Wisdom, Hurt, Freedom

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

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• Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheer Up, Light, Darkness

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