"Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils."
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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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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five…
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Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.
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The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to…
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is…
— Frank Moore Colby
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I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and…
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The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance.…
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If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have…
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For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a…
— John Calvin
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Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those…
— Jim Gerlach
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Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has…
— David Shuster
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The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the…
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