Benjamin Quotes

Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

History is written by the victors.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

Practice makes perfect.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Great men never require experience.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

Life is too short to be little.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.