Occupation: Founding Father Of The United States Birth: January 17, 1706 Death: April 17, 1790
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle..
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 i….
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them..
If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today..
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one..
If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor..
Never ruin an apology with an excuse..
Drive thy business or it will drive thee..
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 manipulat….
If better is possible, good is not enough.
What is the use of a new-born child ?.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light..
Women are books, and men the readers be..
Energy and persistence conquer all things..
Our necessities never equal our wants..
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride sho….
O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended..
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing..
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man..
The world is run by the people who show up..