"There's small Revenge in Words, but Words..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.”

“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”

“The world is run by the people who show up.”

“Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.”

“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”

“A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.”

“I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.”

“It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.”

“The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.”