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Benjamin Franklin

"[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments."

"I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?"

"It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it."

"The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals. ... [I]t establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."