Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Liberty
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Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.
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Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.
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The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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Half the truth is often a great lie.
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People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
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Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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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."
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Laws without morals are in vain.
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Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.
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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. Where liberty dwells there is my country.
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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