Quotes by Founding Fathers - Page 2

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Benjamin Franklin
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?
Benjamin Franklin
The best is the cheapest.
Benjamin Franklin
Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
George Washington
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
Benjamin Franklin
The proud hate pride - in others.
Benjamin Franklin
If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.
Benjamin Franklin
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.
George Washington
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
John Witherspoon
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin
We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
Benjamin Franklin
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin Franklin
Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Were the offer made true I would engage to run again from beginning to end the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author to correct in a second edition certain errors of the first.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
George Washington
There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Benjamin Franklin
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
Benjamin Franklin
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Benjamin Franklin
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
George Washington
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Ben Franklin
Take time for all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
Benjamin Franklin