110+ Benjamin Franklin Quotes On Education, Freedom And Revolution

Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. He was the president of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and the first United States Postmaster General. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Benjamin Franklin on education, freedom, life.

Top 10 Benjamin Franklin Quotes

1. If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
2. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
3. I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
4. Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
5. Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
6. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
7. Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
8. War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
9. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
10. Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin Short Quotes

• Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
• It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
• A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
• He that can have patience can have what he will.
• Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
• How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
• A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
• If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
• Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Education

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. — Benjamin Franklin

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. — Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. — Benjamin Franklin

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance. — Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions. — Benjamin Franklin

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. — Benjamin Franklin

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Freedom

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you. — Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. — Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. — Benjamin Franklin

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning. — Benjamin Franklin

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly. — Benjamin Franklin

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius. — Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Life

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming. — Benjamin Franklin

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. — Benjamin Franklin

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. — Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late — Benjamin Franklin

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. — Benjamin Franklin

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them. — Benjamin Franklin

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Love

Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason. — Benjamin Franklin

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. — Benjamin Franklin

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. — Benjamin Franklin

Those things that hurt, instruct. — Benjamin Franklin

If you want something done, ask a busy person. — Benjamin Franklin

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. — Benjamin Franklin

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. — Benjamin Franklin

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Revolution

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this. — Benjamin Franklin

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution. — Benjamin Franklin

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade! — Benjamin Franklin

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Liberty

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

Security without liberty is called prison. — Benjamin Franklin

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil. — Benjamin Franklin

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty — Benjamin Franklin

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." — Benjamin Franklin

Where liberty is, there is my country. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. — Benjamin Franklin

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. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Success

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

Applause waits on success. — Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. — Benjamin Franklin

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock. — Benjamin Franklin

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable. — Benjamin Franklin

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last. — Benjamin Franklin

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. — Benjamin Franklin

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man. — Benjamin Franklin

In success be moderate. — Benjamin Franklin

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Inventions

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil. — Benjamin Franklin

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly. — Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. — Benjamin Franklin

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven. — Benjamin Franklin

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them. — Benjamin Franklin

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Taxes

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly. — Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. — Benjamin Franklin

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. — Benjamin Franklin

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

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

The only certain things in life are death and taxes! — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Constitution

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

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. — Benjamin Franklin

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it." — Benjamin Franklin

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. — Benjamin Franklin

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended — Benjamin Franklin

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About People

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

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. — Benjamin Franklin

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70. — Benjamin Franklin

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss. — Benjamin Franklin

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. — Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. — Benjamin Franklin

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that. — Benjamin Franklin

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. — Benjamin Franklin

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Made

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. — 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

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

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good knife made of bad steel. — Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain. — Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade. — Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. — Benjamin Franklin

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk. — Benjamin Franklin

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About World

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. — Benjamin Franklin

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. — Benjamin Franklin

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion. — Benjamin Franklin

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist. — Benjamin Franklin

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful. — Benjamin Franklin

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion. — Benjamin Franklin

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter. — Benjamin Franklin

There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Business

God helps them that help themselves. — Benjamin Franklin

There will be sleeping enough in the grave. — Benjamin Franklin

Drive your business, let not your business drive you. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Little strokes fell great oaks. — Benjamin Franklin

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. — Benjamin Franklin

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time. — Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. — Benjamin Franklin

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. — Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. — Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. — Benjamin Franklin

energy and persistence conquers all things — Benjamin Franklin

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy. — Benjamin Franklin

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords. — Benjamin Franklin

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing. — 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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. — Benjamin Franklin

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. — Benjamin Franklin

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. — Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. — Benjamin Franklin

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider — Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. — Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. — Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. — Benjamin Franklin

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality — Benjamin Franklin

God helps those who help themselves. — Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. — Benjamin Franklin

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. — Benjamin Franklin

Those that won't be counseled can't be helped. — 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

Diligence is the mother of good luck. — Benjamin Franklin

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. — Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. — Benjamin Franklin

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. — Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. — Benjamin Franklin

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. — Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. — Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. — Benjamin Franklin

My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. — Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. — Benjamin Franklin

He that cannot obey, cannot command. — Benjamin Franklin

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. — Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors. — Benjamin Franklin

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting — Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. — Benjamin Franklin

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast — Benjamin Franklin

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them? — Benjamin Franklin

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. — Benjamin Franklin

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. — Benjamin Franklin

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. — Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. — Benjamin Franklin

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. — Benjamin Franklin

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves. — Benjamin Franklin

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse. — Benjamin Franklin

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. — Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time. — Benjamin Franklin

Beware the hobby that eats. — Benjamin Franklin

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. — Benjamin Franklin

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. — Benjamin Franklin

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. — Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. — Benjamin Franklin

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin

Life Lessons by Benjamin Franklin

1. Benjamin Franklin taught the importance of hard work and dedication, as he was a self-made man who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential figures in American history.
2. He also emphasized the importance of frugality and thrift, as he was able to amass a large fortune through careful financial planning and investments.
3. Finally, he taught the importance of civic engagement, as he was a tireless advocate for the American Revolution and a major contributor to the development of the United States Constitution.