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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
Malcolm XMalcolm X Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Honesty is the ultimate liberation in life.
RihannaRihanna Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama What is true and beautiful for us is always ultimately what is true and beautiful for our people because there is no such thing as one way liberation.
Brene BrownBrene Brown Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George WashingtonGeorge Washington