Benjamin Quotes

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

The proud hate pride in others.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

He who gains time gains everything.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

You can't judge people by their cover.

It's not the words but the music that counts.

whatever you become be good at it

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

If better is possible, good is not enough

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.