Benjamin Franklin Government Quotes

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

- Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

- Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

- Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

- Benjamin Franklin

Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I remember, Involve me and I learn.

- Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

- Benjamin Franklin

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

- Benjamin Franklin

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

- Benjamin Franklin

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.

- Thomas Paine

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

- Edward Abbey

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is government of, by and for the people

- Abraham Lincoln

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

- Plato