"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.”

“There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.”

“Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.”

“If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.”

“All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.”

“Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.”

“The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”

“As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.”

“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”