Timothy King




Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
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
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Abraham Lincoln

  1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
  2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
  3. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
  4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
  5. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
  6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
  7. You cannot further the brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.
  8. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
  9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence.
  10. You cannot help men by having government tax them to do for them what thay can and should do for themselves.