Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig'd to sit upon his own arse.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.
-- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
-- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
-- Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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