An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. Letter to M. Leroy, 1789.
Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Franklin Experience is the worst teacher. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Historical Review of Pennsylvania. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.