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| "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1776 "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -- Benjamin Franklin "Necessity never made a good bargain. " -- Benjamin Franklin, in: Poor Richard's Almanac (1735) "At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; at forty, the judgement." -- Benjamin Franklin, in: Poor Richard's Almanac (1741) "He that lives on hope will die fasting." -- Benjamin Franklin, in: Poor Richard's Almanac (1758) "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. " -- Benjamin Franklin "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." -- Benjamin Franklin "He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas." -- Benjamin Franklin "Courteous Reader, Remember that time is money." -- Benjamin Franklin, in: Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748) "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 "There was never a good war or a bad peace." -- Benjamin Franklin, in: letter to John Quincey, 11 September 1783 "Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes." -- Benjamin Franklin, in: letter to Jean Baptiste le Roy, 13 November 1789 |
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