Franklin Quotes

173 Franklin quotes by 148 unique authors

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter… — Dick Gephardt
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves.… — Helen Garner
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top… — Mort Sahl
In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so… — Billie Holiday
Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to… — Pete du Pont
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. — Pete du Pont
Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure… — Charles S. Maier
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualitiesâ€”a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosityâ€”but they also share one other defining… — Steven Johnson
If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her. — Benjamin Franklin
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine… — Burl Ives
I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when… — Walter Isaacson
Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen,… — Benjamin Franklin
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin ... — Mark Twain
I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account! — Unknown Author
I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good… — Patrick Henry
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and… — Samuel Eliot Morison
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another… — Ezra Taft Benson

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