"Those who govern, having much business on..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.”

“In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.”

“Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.”

“I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.”

“The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.”

“A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.”

“In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.”

“There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.”

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”