Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
A man is not completely born until he be dead.
A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have
Always taking out of the meal - tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
There never was a good war nor a bad peace.
You may talk too much on the best of subjects.
Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.
Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.
Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.
No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.
No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.