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Assembly Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly…
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the…
- It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but…
- I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent… — Hjalmar Branting
- When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt
- We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg