"A little sturdiness when superiors are much in……" — Benjamin Franklin
"A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
— Gary Bauer
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are…
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by…
— Theodor Adorno
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
— Allan Bloom
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any…
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I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.
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In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political…
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I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a…
— Grover Cleveland
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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