Nothing preaches better than the act. – Benjamin Franklin
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. – Benjamin Franklin
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. – Benjamin Franklin
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. – Benjamin Franklin
It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they dont, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and theyre going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance. – Gwen Moore