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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
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Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.
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When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
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