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Contrary Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that…
- The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
- In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they…
- The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
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- In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy
- At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,… — George Bernard Shaw
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and… — Conrad Black