Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

— Benjamin Franklin
Sad About Life Life Is Short

When you are finished changing, you're finished.

— Benjamin Franklin
Change Short About Life Growth Mindset Adaptability

Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

— Benjamin Franklin
Short About Life Life Is Short

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

— Benjamin Franklin
Startup Hard Work Motivational for Success Motivational Work

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

— Benjamin Franklin
Encouraging for Students Obstacles Inspirational for Men Efficiency

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

— Benjamin Franklin
Friday for Work Work Ethic About Work

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that best understands the world, least likes it.

— Benjamin Franklin

Venison and venery defeated me.

— Benjamin Franklin

To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.

— Benjamin Franklin
Country

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it’ I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

— Benjamin Franklin

While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

— Benjamin Franklin

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Security without liberty is called prison.

— Benjamin Franklin

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

— Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

— Benjamin Franklin
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