| �If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.�
�Lost Time is never found again.� (the 1738 Poor Richard�s Almanac) �Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in the world is certain but death and taxes.� [written 1789] �Remember that time is money.� (the 1748 Poor Richard�s Almanac) �The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.� �The doors of wisdom are never shut.� �The proof of gold is fire...� �There is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered... this [government] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.� �There never was a good war or a bad peace.� [in a Sept. 11, 1783 letter to Josiah Quincy] �They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.� �Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.� �We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.� [upon his signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776] �Well done is better than well said.� �Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.� �What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade?� �When you're finished changing, you're finished.� �You may delay, but Time will not.� (the 1758 Poor Richard�s Almanac) |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
| (1706-1790) |
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