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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. — Benjamin Franklin

It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1758

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. — Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor; 29 November 1766

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

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