"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -The 5000 Year Leap"
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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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More Become Corrupt Quotes
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I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws…
— Horace Mann
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
— Samuel Johnson
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One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had…
— Corita Kent
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The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position...
— Nathaniel Chapman
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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...
— Alfred de Musset
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...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man…
— Francois Fenelon
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Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Corruption spreads faster than cancer among the people in power and position; it strengthens itself by emergence of unholy alliances…
— T Joseph Benziger
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