"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe,……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
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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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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.…
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It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up…
— Unknown Author
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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed,…
— Edward James Olmos
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you…
— Rick Perry
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The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon…
— Charles Babbage
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When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will…
— Randall Terry
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According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the…
— Robert Klein
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We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the…
— William Lane Craig
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Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone…
— Ricky Gervais
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt.…
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