Ben Franklin Quotes on Government

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Give me liberty or give me death.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Lost time is never found again.

Well done is better than well said.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

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

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Honesty is the best policy.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Well done is better than well said.

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

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Lost time is never found again.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

He that has done nothing has known nothing.