Three from Mr. Franklin

I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. 

—  Benjamin Franklin

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. 

—  Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. 

— Benjamin Franklin