“Those who would give unto Caesar the smallest bit of Liberty, will suffer under tyrannic healthcare and have all but their last grain of wheat taken by those who would promise all and yet have not even an item confirming birth amoung them”
Paul’s Letters to the Wasillians
Deeg
February 22, 2011, 7:12pm
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As an aside, I usually use WikiQuote.com to verify quotes.
Keeve
February 22, 2011, 7:23pm
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I don’t think typing and posting is enough. I think someone would have to actually say it aloud too.
Chronos
February 22, 2011, 7:35pm
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Which also, I think, is good evidence that Franklin would agree with the sentiment that “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”, even if he never said it in exactly those words.
Mijin
February 22, 2011, 7:35pm
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“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers” - George Washington
Which also, I think, is good evidence that Franklin would agree with the sentiment that “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”, even if he never said it in exactly those words.
Agreed. But it’s no excuse to go screwing with Franklin’s words.
That was George Washinton Carver
No, no. He was talking about crates of peanut butter.
Ludovic
February 23, 2011, 3:06am
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“I said it once before, but it bears repeating, now” – Oscar Wilde.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to teach you how to use commas properly.”
brujaja
February 23, 2011, 9:42pm
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SeldomSeen:
What does appear in B. Franklin’s quotes is the following…
To confirm still more your piety and gratitude to Divine Providence, reflect upon the situation which it has given to the elbow. You see (Figures 1 and 2) in animals, who are intended to drink the waters that flow upon the earth, that if they have long legs, they have also a long neck, so that they can get at their drink without kneeling down. But man, who was destined to drink wine, must be able to raise the glass to his mouth. If the elbow had been placed nearer the hand (as in Figure 3), the part in advance would have been too short to bring the glass up to the mouth; and if it had been placed nearer the shoulder, (as in Figure 4) that part would have been so long that it would have carried the wine far beyond the mouth. But by the actual situation, (represented in Figure 5), we are enabled to drink at our ease, the glass going exactly to the mouth. Let us, then, with glass in hand, adore this benevolent wisdom; – let us adore and drink!* - It’s in a letter written circa 1779 while Franklin was in Paris.
SS
Oh, wow!! So that’s where THIS came from:
“God bless the human elbow,
—Oak Ash & Thorn?