Benjamin Franklin

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The best way to keep a secret is to tell it to everybody.

The longer I live, the more I see of the imperfections of men, the more I am apt to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

The only sure thing in life is death and taxes.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to suffer, and to hope.

The way to see faith is not to shut your eyes, but to open them.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should neither have a splendid house nor fine clothes.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

He that is rich, has many friends.

Wish not so much to live long, as to live well.

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

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.