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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

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin

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Needlework
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Benjamin Franklin
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. – Benjamin Franklin

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Contentment
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Benjamin Franklin
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Other Quotes from
Liberty
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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

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Liberty

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. – John Philpot Curran

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Liberty

Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. – Proverb

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Liberty

Random Quotes

I dont think about art when Im working. I try to think about life. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Art

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. – Orson Welles

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good

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. – R. D. Laing

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Change

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Hope