Ben Franklin Speaks to 21st Century America from his 18th Century Point of View

(Excerpts from Neil's book Poor Richard’s Almanack for the 20th Century)
(this book was written as if Ben Franklin had come back to life in our time)

New thoughts are added each Monday and Thursday.

TO KEEP AMERICA ALIVE AND WELL. To God give fear and love, to your neighbor justice and charity, to yourself prudence and sobriety.

WHETHER YOU BUY BONDS, OR PLACE YOUR MONEY IN THE MONEY MARKET, OR DABBLE IN REAL ESTATE, IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER. All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.

TO THOSE WHO CONTINUALLY SAY “I DO MY OWN THING,” I WOULD SAY: Would you live with ease? Then do what you ought and not what you please.

ON ROOTS. Everyone has at least some relatives in the family of fools.
Never mistake anarchy for freedom.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A HOLLYWOOD STAR TO FALL VICTIM TO TOO PRIDE: He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Bureaucrats offer a feast as if there were no tomorrow and fools believe them.

The winning of any war is but the first chapter of a manuscript called winning the peace.

One reason so many marriages break down is because so many mouths are wound up.

Owning is better than owing.

It could be a wonderful world…and it is.

If you think your doctors today bleed you, you should have lived in my time.

AS DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARGUE OVER TAX CUTS IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER that we are all taxed twice as much by our pride, three times as much by our laziness and four times as much by our folly.