Quotes by Franklin, Benjamin

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. >>

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resol >>

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to di >>

Quotations about War

Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wa >>

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum! >>

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land >>

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin