Skip to content
QuoteQuest

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Verification

Attributed

Recorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.

Imported from Wikiquote; not yet checked by QuoteQuest against the original source.

Source

Title
Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin
Type
reference · Secondary source
Held by
Wikiquote
View source at Wikiquote

Context

"Apology for Printers" (1730); later in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiographical Writings (1945) edited by Carl Van Doren

Cite this source

Franklin, Benjamin. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Check citations against your institution's style guide; some details may be missing.

Provenance: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA)