"Three things are men most likely to..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.”

“In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.”

“Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.”

“Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.”

“Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you”

“No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.”

“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.”

“Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.”

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”