Benjamin Martin quotes

“Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?”
-- Benjamin Martin

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“No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.”
-- Benjamin Martin

Source : Benjamin Martin (1749). “Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, a New English Dictionary, Under the Following Titles, Viz. I. Universal; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is Prefix'd, an Introduction, Containing a Physico-grammatical Essay on the Propriety and Rationale of the English Tongue, ... By Benj. Martin”, p.482

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“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me.  And the cost is more than I can bear.”
-- Benjamin Martin

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“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”

“Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.”

“Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.”

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

“I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.”

“Ive only dressed in drag three or four times.”

“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”

“Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.”

“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.