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"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price." -
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Benjamin Franklin
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War & Peace
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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."
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
Top 5 quotes from War & Peace
"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
"Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal."
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"
"It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families."
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