Benjamin Franklin on liberty
“Security without liberty is called prison.”
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin He who can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Security without liberty is called prison.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin No one cares what you know until they know that you care!
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Fish and visitors smell in three days.
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I don’t have time to put up with the politics. Who’s a Democrat? Who’s a Republican? Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That’s what I’m concerned about.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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