Benjamin Quotes

Religion is civilization, the highest.

The used key is always bright.

I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.

Donald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There's no question about that.

I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.