Benjamin Franklin citáty a výroky
Zdroj: Tony Buzan: Síla duchovní inteligence, Columbus, Praha 2002, ISBN 80-7249-131-8
Originál: (en) Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Zdroj: [Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives : 1755–1756, Philadelphia, 1756, 19–21, http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=6&page=238a]
„Nevědět není taková ostuda jako nebýt ochoten se učit.“
Originál: (en) Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Originál: (en) It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that if every man and woman would work for four hours every day on something useful, that labour would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries of life, want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure.
Zdroj: ČT24, Studio 6, 30. 9. 2015, v čase 09:40
Zdroj: [Benjamin, Franklin, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, II, vol., On luxury, idleness, and industry, New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40236/40236-8.txt]
