When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I use a lot of specific places in my songs - traditionally, a lot from Minneapolis and St. Paul, where I grew… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think there will be some people who think I did a great job, some people who will think, 'Hey, for a… — Rich Franklin Copy Share Image
And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“ She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and… — J.D. Bernal Copy Share Image
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to… — Raini Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are… — Beck Copy Share Image
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of. — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. — Ernie Isley Copy Share Image
There are bursts of things like Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt or same-sex marriage that change very much… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
![“[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day…” quote by Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb9/gretchen-rubin-867_character_benjamin-franklin-identified-thirteen-vi_1250862.jpg)
![“I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was…” quote by Francis Crick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf9/francis-crick-8439_average_i-think-she-rosalind-franklin-was-a-good_1215256.jpg)
![“He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.” quote by Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6d/winston-churchill-95_airmen_he-president-franklin-d-roosevelt-died-i_698617.jpg)
![“[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.” quote by Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7df/calvin-coolidge-764_china_sun-yat-sen-is-a-combined-benjamin-frank_2144431.jpg)
![“No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.” quote by Malcolm X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37f/malcolm-x-213_franklin_no-president-ever-had-more-power-than-fr_2257846.jpg)
![“As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.” quote by John Desmond Bernal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eea/john-desmond-bernal-14871_beautiful_as-a-scientist-miss-rosalind-franklin-wa_2817403.jpg)
