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
Benjamin Franklin quotes about
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest
Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away
Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
Three good meals a day is bad living.
Three removes are as bad as a fire