Author Topic: ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes ~ (Read 19439 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #150 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:10:01 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #151 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:10:30 AM »

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable those that are movable and those that move.

MysteRy · « **Reply #152 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:10:56 AM »

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #153 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:11:24 AM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #154 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:11:52 AM »

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.

MysteRy · « **Reply #155 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:12:23 AM »

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

MysteRy · « **Reply #156 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:12:51 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #157 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:13:19 AM »

If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.

MysteRy · « **Reply #158 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:13:57 AM »

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

MysteRy · « **Reply #159 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:14:26 AM »

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

MysteRy · « **Reply #160 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:14:54 AM »

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it I get up.

MysteRy · « **Reply #161 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:15:25 AM »

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

MysteRy · « **Reply #162 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:15:54 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #163 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:16:27 AM »

'Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

MysteRy · « **Reply #164 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:16:58 AM »

So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

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