Benjamin Franklin

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.

Benjamin Franklin

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Benjamin Franklin

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Benjamin Franklin

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent people that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their case.

Benjamin Franklin

In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself.

Benjamin Franklin

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Benjamin Franklin

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. There are no gains without pains; then help hands, for I have no lands;

Benjamin Franklin