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First Principles: Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors, and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Man

“Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbors, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: No Nation Has Ever Been Ruined By Trade

“No nation has ever been ruined by trade.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: Life Is A Kind of Chess, In Which We Have Often Points To Gain, and Competitors or Adversaries To Contend With

“Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the … Continue reading

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First Principles: Freedom of Speech Is A Principal Pillar of A Free Government: When This Support Is Taken Away, the Constitution of a Free Society Is Dissolved

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” – Benjamin Franklin, in The Pennsylvania Gazette

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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom of Speech

“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)

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First Principles: Whoever Would Overthrow the Liberty of A Nation Must Begin By Subduing the Freedom of Speech

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: If Men Are So Wicked With Religion, What Would They Be Without It?

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: We Must All Hang Together, Or Assuredly We Shall All Hang Separately

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin (1776)

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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Things As Wisdom; and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom of Speech

“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)

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First Principles: How Few There Are Who Have Courage Enough To Own Their Faults, Or Resolution Enough To Mend Them

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

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