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Lighthouses are more useful than churches
Lighthouses are more useful than churches.
(Apparent misquote: a paraphrasing of a similar sentiment expressed by Franklin)
Because your religion is wrong.
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...Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.
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Ben Franklin never said that...another of the many fake quotes circulating on the internet. http://fakehistory.wordpress.com/quotation-index/
Thanks for the tip. I've nixed some false quotations in the past, and am happy to remove any remaining. (However, I'm going to mark this quotation as false, rather than remove it; otherwise, your comment will also disappear!)
According to Wikiquotes, the quotation doesn't appear in any known writings, but is apparently paraphrased from something Franklin did write in 1757 regarding an experience with a shipwreck:
The bell ringing for church, we went thither immediately, and with hearts full of gratitude, returned sincere thanks to God for the mercies we had received: were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.
I'm glad to see that Franklin at least expresses a sentiment similar to that of the false quotation!
Thanks again –
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