"The punishment of murder by death is contrary……" — Benjamin Franklin
"The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation."
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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 punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
— Saint Augustine
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive…
— Alain Badiou
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the…
— Kate Adie
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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