Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
topics: knowledge
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
“Lost Time is never found again.”
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
topics: friendship
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
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“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
topics: heart
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
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Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.