Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Politics

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

    Mistake  
    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

    Men  
    Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.11
  • It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

  • Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

  • Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

    Letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud, April 17, 1787.
  • A Republic, if you can keep it.

    Quoted in American Historical Review, Apr. 1906
  • The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

  • [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

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

    Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1838). “The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces”, p.408
  • The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing
  • He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

  • The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

  • It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...: Posthumous and other writings”, p.111
  • I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.80, Regnery Publishing
  • We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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

    Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270
  • He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

    Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1738
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Benjamin Franklin

  • Born: January 17, 1706
  • Died: April 17, 1790
  • Occupation: Founding Father of the United States