Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

~Benjamin Franklin

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

~Benjamin Franklin

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

~Benjamin Franklin

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

~Benjamin Franklin

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

~George Washington

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

~Benjamin Franklin

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

~Benjamin Franklin

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

~George Washington

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

~Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

~Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

~Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

~Benjamin Franklin

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

~Thomas Jefferson

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

~Benjamin Franklin

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

~John Adams

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

 ~Alexander Hamilton

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

~Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

~Thomas Jefferson

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

 ~Alexander Hamilton

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

~Benjamin Franklin

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

~George Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

~George Washington

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

~George Washington

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

 ~Alexander Hamilton

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

~Benjamin Franklin

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

~George Washington

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

 ~Alexander Hamilton

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will

 ~Alexander Hamilton

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

~George Washington

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

~George Washington

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

~Benjamin Franklin

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

~Benjamin Franklin

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

~John Adams