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
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
If you want something done, ask a busy person.
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.