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Politician Quotes
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American Politician Quotes
Date of Birth:
January 17, 1706
Date of Death:
April 17, 1790
Nationality:
American
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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

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

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

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin

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

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt, don't.
Benjamin Franklin

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