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Might Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works…
- 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…
- I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,…
- That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for…
- And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from…
- Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to…
- That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer,…
- 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…
- After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a…
- Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned…
- Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in…
- If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine