Franklin Quotes · Page 8

What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would…

— Rahki

Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue…

— Jackie Mason

You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

— Newt Gingrich

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names…

— Timothy Noah

This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is…

— Orson Scott Card

I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at…

— William A. Rusher

And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the…

— Steven Millhauser

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and…

— Tim Ferriss

“ She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and…

— J.D. Bernal

Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

— Alan Bennett

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper…

— Evan Bayh

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty:…

— Ruth Ann Minner

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

Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin

— GZA

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has…

— Gordon S. Wood

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

— Gordon S. Wood

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

— Walter Isaacson

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

— Barack Obama

“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,…

— Chuck Klosterman

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -…

— Kurt Vonnegut

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor…

— William Bennett