Benjamin Franklin on liberty
“Security without liberty is called prison.”
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To cease to think creatively is to cease to live.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Words may show a man’s wit, actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Women are books, and men the readers be.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin 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.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.
Gary ZukavGary Zukav We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
George TakeiGeorge Takei The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
George LucasGeorge Lucas Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
Charles SchumerCharles Schumer The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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