Citations de Benjamin Franklin

En anglais : "A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

En anglais :"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn"

En anglais : "Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. "

En anglais : " At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

En anglais : "Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion"

En anglais : "They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

En anglais : "For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail."

En anglais : "When the well is dry, we know the worth of water" (Poor Richard's Almanac)

Citation apocryphe : aucune trace de cette phrase dans les écrits de B. Franklin.

En anglais : "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

Autre traduction : "La démocratie c'est un agneau et deux loups qui votent pour le repas du soir. La liberté c'est un agneau bien armé qui conteste le résultat du vote."

En anglais : "'Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."