Be at War with Your Vices: Benjamin Franklin’s New Year’s Challenge
“Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New Year find you a better Man.” -Benjamin Franklin This timeless lesson, along with many others drawn from his legendary Poor Richard’s Almanack, continues to inspire and guide us nearly three...
The Republic was not Kept: Benjamin Franklin’s Constitution Day Prediction
“A republic … if you can keep it” September 17, 1787 – the day the constitution was signed. We all know Benjamin Franklin’s famous line. But he wasn’t warning us about the government. He wasn’t even warning about the constitution....
Corruption: The Founders Warned Us About Ourselves
“This can only end in despotism.” Benjamin Franklin didn’t offer that as a theory. It was a sentence – and prophetic. He knew exactly what happens when a people trade virtue for vice: liberty dies, and tyranny takes its place. Not by accident. Not by force. But...