<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Benjamin Franklin Quotes</title><description>Quotes from the US Founding Father.Benjamin Franklin</description><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/father/id/3</link><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/652</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/652</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Let me add that only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/651</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/651</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Without virtue, man can have no happiness in this world]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/642</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/642</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven...]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/641</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/641</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[I think with you , that nothing is more important for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms...]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/637</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/637</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need for matters]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/609</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/609</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/607</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/607</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/276</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/276</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Much of the Strength and Efficiency of any Government in procuring and securing Happiness to the People depends on Opinion, on the general Opinion of the Goodness of that Government as well as of the Wisdom and Integrity of its Governors. I hope therefore that for our own Sakes, as a Part of the People, and for the sake of our Posterity we shall act heartity and unanimously in recommending this Constitution, wherever our Influence may extend, and turn our future Thoughts and Endeavours to the Means of having it well administred. ]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/275</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/275</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[For when you assemble a Number of Men to have the Advantage of their joint Wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those Men all their Prejudices, their Passions, their Errors of Opinion, their local Interests, and their selfish Views. From such an Assembly can a perfect Production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this System approaching so near to Perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our Enemies, who are waiting with Confidence to hear that our Councils are confounded, like those of the Builders of Babel, and that our States are on the Point of Separation, only to meet hereafter for the Purpose of cutting one anothers Throats.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/274</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/274</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[...there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well adminstred for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/273</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/273</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[... having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obligated, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/272</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/272</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[When a broad table is to be made and the edges of planks do not fit the artist takes a little from both and makes a good joint.  In like manner here, both sides must part with some of their demands in order that they may join in some accommodating proposition.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/271</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/271</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[..they are supported by a Sense of Duty; and the Respect paid to Usefulness. It is honorable to be so employ’d, but it was never made profitable by Salaries, Fees, or Perquisites. And indeed in all Cases of public Service, the less the Profit the greater the Honor.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/270</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/270</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[...that the Pleasure of doing Good and Serving their Country, and the Respect such Conduct entitles them to, are sufficient Motives with some Minds to give up a great Portion of their Time to the Public, without the mean Inducement of pecuniary Satisfaction. 
]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/269</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/269</guid><title>Benjamin Franklin Quote</title><description><![CDATA[There are two Passions which have a powerful Influence in the Affairs of Men. These are Ambition and Avarice; the Love of Power, and the Love of Money. Separately each of these has great Force in prompting Men to Action; but when united in View of the same Object, they have in many Minds the most violent Effect. Place before the Eyes of such Men a [Post] of Honor that shall at the same time be a Place of Profit, and they will move Heaven and Earth to obtain it.]]></description></item></channel></rss>