Benjamin Franklin

The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.

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

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge a obligation.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

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

When the people find that they can vote themselves money that comes from the public as treasury, the republic will be destroyed.

Rebellion is always lawful.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being... [and] that the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other Children.

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

A republic, if you can keep it.