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Nation Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is…
- There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
- The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and…
- There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is…
- If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all…
- No nation was ever ruined by trade.
- Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
- A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is…
- Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is…
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- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
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- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac