2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we can render to him is doing good to his other children.

If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbably that rum may be the appointed means.

For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast

td>Caesar did not merit the triumphal car more than he that conquers himself.

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

Wealth and content are not always bedfellows.

He that's secure is not safe

There cannot be good living where there is no good drinking.

Wink at small faults