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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed. - B

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed. – Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. – Benjamin Franklin

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Caution
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Benjamin Franklin
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin

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Life
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Benjamin Franklin
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy

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Government

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. – Donald Rumsfeld

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Government

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. – Andrew Johnson

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Government

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. – Herbert Spencer

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Government

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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. – Abraham Lincoln

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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. – Samuel Johnson

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Every solution breeds new problems. – Arthur Bloch

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Solutions

The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world. – Medard Boss

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Understanding