Benjamin Franklin Quote

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.


The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Correspondence (ed. 1817)


To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity...

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity...

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity...

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity...