Benjamin Quotes

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

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

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

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

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

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.

Lost Time is never found again.

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

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.