Who said where liberty is there is my country

He also attacked organized churches, even though he believed in God. His remains were shipped to England and were eventually lost.

Paine was strongly opposed to despotism and injustice and strongly supportive of freedom and social justice. Document: In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great-Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect.

Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.

But even this is admitting more than is true; for I answer The commerce by which she hath enriched herself are the necessaries of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe. But she has protected us, say some Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. No nation was ever ruined by trade. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Tell me and I forget. It calls upon us to ask hard questions at each step: How can we maximise equal freedom while holding everyone accountable for their actions? How can we provide incentives to attract good people to government?

Having done that, how can we ensure sufficient checks and balances to prevent our governments from misusing their powers? But India avoids the hard questions.

We have therefore allowed anachronistic colonial institutions like the IAS to continue even as the British and others long since abandoned tenured services in favour of direct, open, recruitment to all public service positions. Similarly, we expect altruistic parliamentarians to manage our country on our behalf at a salary lower than what we pay fresh management graduates!

I fully agreed with Gen. Washington that we must safeguard this young nation, as yet in its swaddling clothes, from the insidious influence and impenetration of the Roman Catholic Church which pauperizes and degrades all countries and people over whom it holds sway.

Boller, Jr. Beard conducted a thorough investigation of the attribution and found it to be false. There is a great danger for the United States of America. This great danger is the Jew. Gentlemen, in whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion, have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially.

If you do not exclude them from the United States in the Constitution, in less than years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land, and change our form of government. If you do not exclude them, in less than years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands.

I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will or how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise.

The quote appears in no source prior to Pelley's publication, contains anachronisms, and contradicts Franklin's own financial support of the construction of a synagogue in Philadelphia. Many variations of the above have been made, including adding to "the Christian religion" the phrase "upon which this nation was founded, by objecting to its restrictions"; adding to "strangle that country to death financially" the phrase "as in the case of Spain and Portugal".

Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties. The phrasing is anachronistic and no earlier connection to Franklin is known. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do. Carnegie is quoting Franklin immediately prior to writing this, so attribution could be due to a printing error in some edition.

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. Franklin himself calls this an "old maxim" when he repeats it at page 48 of his autobiography.

Franklin's recognition of this effect caused it to be named after him. Wikipedia, Ben Franklin Effect. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

According to a Snopes message board , the earliest known reference dates to the late s. If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail. Fail to prepare; prepare to fail. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Politics is the art of the possible.