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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

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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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. – Benjamin Franklin

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Labor
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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

Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. – Proverb

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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

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. – William Blake

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Liberty

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I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. – Oscar Wilde

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Vegetarianism

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. – George Orwell

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War

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body… my liver… okay, my brain… went. – Dennis Hopper

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Insanity

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends. – Shirley Knight

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Women