Quote by Benjamin Franklin
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. – Benjamin Franklin

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin

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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. – Benjamin Franklin

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If guys dont respect themselves, they dont respect other people. Thats times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it dont take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. – Richard Petty

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Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary. – Michael Scheuer

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If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell dont respect him. – Wil Wheaton

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The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career. – Julio Iglesias

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