Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.”
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.”
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”
“god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!”
“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”
“He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
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“Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.”
“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.”
“Games lubricate the body and mind.”
“He that's content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.”
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Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.