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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
    3382 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: drinking, humor
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: willful-ignorance
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “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
    1093 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: planning, preparation
    1125 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: christian-behavior, christmas, religion
    888 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: dissent, duty, independent-thought
    773 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “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
    648 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: enterprise, self-determination
    612 likes

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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Thomas Paine
    “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: belief, bible, cruel, cruelty, murder, rapine, the-bible
    392 likes

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    Thomas Paine
    “One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: christianity, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, skepticism
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    Thomas Paine
    “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

    All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: church, creed, enslave, greek, human-invention, jewish, monopolize, power, profit, protestant, religion, roman, turkish
    293 likes

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    Thomas Paine
    “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
    ― Thomas Paine
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    Thomas Paine
    “A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: accountability, trust
    239 likes

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  • #17
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
    ― Lyndon Baines Johnson
    tags: bigotry
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “The noblest search is the search for excellence”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
    ― Lyndon B Johnson
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man....I could be eating a slow learner.”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
    23767 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
    10094 likes

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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44327 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
    3240 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
    2204 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom
    1579 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
    1353 likes

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  • #30
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: emnity, understanding-others
    1257 likes



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