"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in……" — Benjamin Franklin
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
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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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There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that…
— Samuel Johnson
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We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of…
— Bruce Alberts
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The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield…
— James Madison
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The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the…
— Helen Prejean
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The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the…
— James Madison
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart…
— Dogen
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Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of…
— Pope Pius X
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Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
— Charles James Fox
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For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched…
— Robert Barclay
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