Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. These Benjamin Franklin quotes will motivate you in life.
Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- “War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.” ~ Benjamin Franklin - “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough, to be honest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “He who would trade liberty for some temporary security deserves neither liberty nor security.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Little minds think and talk about people.
Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
Great minds think and talk about ideas.” ~ Benjamin Franklin - “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible, and then receive the impossible.
Where liberty dwells there is my country.” ~ Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin quotes on time - “Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Success is the residue of planning.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism… when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“The proof of gold is fire.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The best of all medicines is resting and fasting” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Common sense without education is better than education without common sense.” ~ Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin quotes on education
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“If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Change is the only constant in life. One’s ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Genius is the ability to hold one’s vision steady until it becomes reality” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I have lived, Sir, long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that “except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Security without liberty is called prison.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Women are books, and men the readers be.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. … Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know… Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Doing your best means never stop trying.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“The noblest question in the world is: ‘What good may I do in it?'” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
