Benjamin Quotes

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

Do not fear mistakes.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

Populism is dangerous.

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

I really learned it all from mothers.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

'Tis done. We have become a nation.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Never confuse Motion with Action.

Mine is better than ours.