We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian. — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days.… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled… — Daniel H. Hill Copy Share Image
Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part,… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“Franklin and, by extension, the Junto were particularly fond of things that could help the public as well as themselves.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.' — Michael Muhney Copy Share Image
Leaders such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others promulgated a vision and a moving story of how their… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle — KRS-One Copy Share Image
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin ... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas… — Burl Ives Copy Share Image
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love,… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to,… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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