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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
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He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
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Evils come not, then our fears are vain And if they do fear but augments the pain.
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It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
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