"A beneficent person is like a fountain watering……" — Epicurus

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• Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the… — Annie Besant
• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. — Louis D. Brandeis
• The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female… — Carol P. Christ
• [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the… — Alexander Hamilton
• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men… — Louis D. Brandeis
• Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to… — Rebecca Harding Davis
• The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this… — Charles Darwin
• I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for… — Charles Darwin
• But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of… — Charles Darwin
• We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws… — John Dalton
• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it… — Otto Hermann Kahn
• Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any… — Unknown Author

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