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“The truth has no agenda.”
― Glenn Beck

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: evil

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“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: declaration, faith, god, honor, independence, loyalty

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“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. ”
― George Washington

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“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
― George Washington

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“Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”
― George Washington

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#7

“I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees!”
― George Washington

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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”
― George Washington Carver

tags: history

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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
― George Washington

tags: 1st-u-s-president

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#10

“Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
― George Washington, George Washington's Farewell Address

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“ After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it."
A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it?
If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.”
― Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher

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“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

tags: secrets

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#14

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: advice, apology

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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: willful-ignorance

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#16

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson

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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance

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#18

“Lost time is never found again.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

tags: time, wisdom

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#19

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: books, censorship, reading

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“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: enterprise, self-determination

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“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: general-welfare, government

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#22

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

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#23

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

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“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty

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“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: games

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“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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“Security without liberty is called prison.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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“The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#29

“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#30

“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-inspirational, misattributed-mark-twain

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