Quotes by Franklin, Benjamin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune >>

Necessity never made a good bargain. >>

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. >>

Quotations about America

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is >>

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at >>

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing. >>

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Franklin, Benjamin