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Quote DB :: Authors :: Benjamin Franklin :: View Quote View Quote "So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Benjamin Franklin Listed in: Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.5  Rate Quote 6 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Benjamin Franklin "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Top 5 quotes from Thinking "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord." "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses." "What once was thought can never be unthought." "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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