Posted on 08/21/2024 3:10:02 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” ~ (Benjamin Franklin)
“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” ~ (Benjamin Franklin)
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ~ (Benjamin Franklin)
“Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.” ~ (Benjamin Franklin)
“Moderation in all things – including moderation.” ~ (Benjamin Franklin)
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.” ~ (Benjamin Franklin)
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ~ (Benjamin Franklin)
https://www.internetpillar.com/benjamin-franklin-quotes/
(Excerpt) Read more at internetpillar.com ...
Well, the first one’s bogus. I’m not going to bother checking any more of them.
“The world can turn on a dime.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln warned against believing everything you read on the Internet.
I always thought that was Mark Twain. Now I know.
From a different American: “To educate the mind and not the morals is to educate a menace to society’’.- President Theodore Roosevelt.
I use Ben Franklin aphorisms in my ELA class.
62. “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
bfl
155. “Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.”
The lawyers from Harvard to to mind.. :(
“the first one’s bogus”
They agree with you:
https://checkyourfact.com/2019/05/29/fact-check-democracy-jefferson-adams-franklin-hamilton/
Used by Mises in 2003 on a page still up (no link to a source):
https://mises.org/mises-daily/ben-franklin-liberty
Wikiquote thinks it’s bogus too (~60% down):
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
The page formatting is hard to read.
“Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.”
bump
“Much of Franklin’s writing on the topic can be found in the Franklin Collection at Yale University, considered the most extensive archive of material by and about this Founding Father. Since 1976, NEH has funded the editing and publication of that massive effort, which is estimated to reach 47 volumes upon completion. Those documents have slowly been digitized and many are now accessible via an online database.”
“’the Pamphlet War marked a new development in early American print culture, where satire, political propaganda, and fake news shaped debate and opinion.’”
https://www.neh.gov/article/benjamin-franklin-and-pamphlet-wars
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