Benjamin Quotes

If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.

If you want a thing done go if not send.

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.

Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Worry is 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.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Justice is truth in action.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.