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Quotes by Benjamin Franklin in Government category:
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody." 4.5556 average rating Rate this Quote
"The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist." 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote


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