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Both Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
- If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
- The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families…
- Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
- Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
- The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
- Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
- Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures…
- A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.
- When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair…
- If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their…
- Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both…
- The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
- He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither…
- There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
- Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
- Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need…
- Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
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