… I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe… Polly Baker
– Benjamin Franklin
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- Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends – Polly Berrien Berends
- The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- (Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters. – Daniel McHugh
- We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can’t live with guilt for the whole of our lives.. – Susan Hill
- The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. – Benjamin Franklin
- It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights. – Steven Magee
- It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson
- Then our crime’s worse than a murderer’s. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one. – Scott Klusendorf
- And if something is only itself, it doesn’t particularly matter. – Chuck Klosterman
- You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin
- The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read. – Benjamin Franklin
- If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. – Benjamin Franklin
- … a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work…. – Benjamin Franklin
- Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin
- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S – Benjamin Franklin
- Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. – Benjamin Franklin
- I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. – Benjamin Franklin
- The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. – Benjamin Franklin
- Games lubricate the body and mind. – Benjamin Franklin
- After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. – Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin was a real tomcat, no woman was safe from his lightening bolt – Stephen Tootle
- A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. – Benjamin Franklin
- Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
- Never ruin an apology with an excuse. – Benjamin Franklin
- Never confuse Motion with Action. – Benjamin Franklin
- Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. – Benjamin Franklin
- Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin
- Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. – Benjamin Franklin
- Be not sick too late, nor well too soon – Benjamin Franklin
- Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all – Benjamin Franklin
- If you will not hear reason, she’ll rap your knuckles. – Benjamin Franklin
- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! – Benjamin Franklin
- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin
- The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. – Benjamin Franklin
- Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75. – Benjamin Franklin attributed
- Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75. – Benjamin Franklin attributed