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Private Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- 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…
- Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to…
- It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but…
- History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious…
- My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go…
- No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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