Benjamin Quotes

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

He that lives well, is learned enough.

Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

Stocks can be dynamite.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Eat what you like, but dress for other people.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.