Well, the first one’s bogus. I’m not going to bother checking any more of them.
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.”
“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