Franklin Quotes

173 quotes by 153 authors

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president,… — Russell Baker
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover… — L. Frank Baum
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in… — Evan Bayh
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what… — Joe Biden
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan,… — Mary J. Blige
It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've… — John Boehner
Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons,… — Elayne Boosler
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. — Tracy Chapman
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. — Winston Churchill
People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington… — Sharron Angle
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love… — Maya Angelou
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is time that conservative people of faith jointly commit to praying for our nation (daily, fervently!) and also rise up hand in hand in… — Jonathan Falwell
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies… — Benjamin Franklin
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic… — Benjamin Franklin
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… — Francis Crick
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and… — Benjamin Franklin
I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle — KRS-One
Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin — GZA

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