They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
— Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
— Benjamin Franklin
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
— Benjamin Franklin
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
— Benjamin Franklin
Where there is Hunger, Law is not regarded; and where Law is not regarded, there will be Hunger.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1755)
When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
— Benjamin Franklin
Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
— Benjamin Franklin
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
— Benjamin Franklin
It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1758
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
— Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor; 29 November 1766
