#ben

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. ↗

— William Banting

#argument #articles #beans #beneficial #certain

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#aggressively #believe #communities #congress #country

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#absence #benevolence #confidence #disposition #justice

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bent #breeding #caliber #good #good breeding

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#experience #government #guard #liberty #most

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#always #been #believed #benefits #box

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#covered #only #throne #velvet

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#benefit #bulldoze #business #governments #home

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. ↗

— Arna Bontemps

#dance #dreams #fathers #jungle #keep

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. ↗