Benjamin Franklin quotes

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.