Adam Shortreed

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“There are no gains without pains.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin