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Maxims Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally…
- No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
- The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
- Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves…
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- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with… — John Adams
- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
- I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste… — Tony Abbott
- To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one… — James Buchanan
- There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Vinton Cerf
- I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal… — Miguel de Cervantes
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel