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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little te

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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

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Gun Control
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Benjamin Franklin
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. – Benjamin Franklin

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Time
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Benjamin Franklin
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. – Benjamin Franklin

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Money
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Liberty
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

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Liberty

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. – Andre Breton

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Liberty

Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. – Proverb

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Liberty

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. – Margot Asquith

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Liberty

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The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature thats filed everywhere else except under travel. – Robyn Davidson

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The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp… – Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass

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Woodworking

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. – Louis LAmour

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Education

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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God