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My Town Tutors loves history. In honor of the 4th of July, we are compiling great quotes from the founding fathers.
Below are quotes from Ben Franklin:
- “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Ben Franklin
- “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.” Ben Franklin
- “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” Ben Franklin
- “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Ben Franklin
- “He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.” Ben Franklin
- “If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.” Ben Franklin
- “Never confuse motion with action.” Ben Franklin
- “This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Ben Franklin
- Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” Ben Franklin
- “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” Ben Franklin
- “To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.” Ben Franklin
- “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” Ben Franklin
- “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Ben Franklin
- “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” Ben Franklin
- “He’s a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.” Ben Franklin
- “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Ben Franklin
- “Eat to live, and not live to eat.” Ben Franklin
- “After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.” Ben Franklin
- “Necessity never made a good bargain.” Ben Franklin
- “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” Ben Franklin
- “Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.” Ben Franklin
- “God helps them that help themselves.” Ben Franklin
- “The worst wheel of a cart makes the most noise.” Ben Franklin
- “There are three faithful friends — an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” Ben Franklin
- “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” Ben Franklin
- “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” Ben Franklin
- “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” Ben Franklin
- “Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.” Ben Franklin
- “Little strokes, Fell great oaks.” Ben Franklin
- “Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.” Ben Franklin
- “Fish and visitors stink after three days.” Ben Franklin
- “Well done is better than well said.” Ben Franklin
- “Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.” Ben Franklin
- “Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.” Ben Franklin
- “He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.” Ben Franklin
- “Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.” Ben Franklin
- “Love your Neighbour; yet don’t pull down your Hedge.” Ben Franklin
- “People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.” Ben Franklin
- “Read much, but not too many books.” Ben Franklin
- “He that speaks much, is much mistaken.” Ben Franklin
- “Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.” Ben Franklin
- “A good example is the best sermon.” Ben Franklin
- “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Ben Franklin
- “He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” Ben Franklin
- “A little neglect may breed great mischief…for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.” Ben Franklin
- “Remember that time is money.” Ben Franklin
- “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Ben Franklin
- “There was never a good war or a bad peace.” Ben Franklin
- “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” Ben Franklin
- “Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Ben Franklin
- “Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.” Ben Franklin
- “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” Ben Franklin
- “Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.” Ben Franklin
- “Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.” Ben Franklin
- “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” Ben Franklin
- “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Ben Franklin