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People Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
- People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
- To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
- Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.
- In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.
- 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…
- Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being…
- If you want something done, ask a busy person.
- I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
- People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
- The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.
- What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
- Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect…
- When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]
- In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for…
- 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…
- If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed,…
- The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
- There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's…
- In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.
- Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.
- Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
- 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…
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