"Death takes no bribes." — Benjamin Franklin
"Death takes no bribes."
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Benjamin Franklin
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
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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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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
— John le Carre
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation…
— Ayn Rand
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and…
— Sun Tzu
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Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely…
— James Madison
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American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned…
— Larry Pressler
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Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter.
— Mindy Kaling
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Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol…
— Fred Reed
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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society…
— Marsilio Ficino
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How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician…
— Susanna Clarke
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If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if…
— Cherie Priest
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