"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors”

“He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.”

“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”

“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.”

“The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.”

“Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.”

“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.”

“In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.”

“What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people.”