Benjamin Franklin Quotes That Move and Inspire You

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Time is money.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about 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.

Mine is better than ours.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.