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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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322 |
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AUTHOR:
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Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) |
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QUOTATION:
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In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, debates in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1787.—James Madison, Journal of the Federal Convention, ed. E. H. Scott, p. 742 (1893). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Constitution of the United States |
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