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Benjamin Martin Quotes

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

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

Benjamin Martin
Long, Cost, Return

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
Age, Arbitrary, Use
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

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

Benjamin Martin
Tyrants, Three, Patriot

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