Franklin Quotes
173 Franklin quotes by 148 unique authors
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My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.
— Jacob K. Javits
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I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.
— Lynda Resnick
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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither…
— Dan Pfeiffer
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As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell…
— Alanis Morissette
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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony…
— Edward Rutherfurd
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My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
— Lionel Barber
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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.
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George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D.…
— John Lewis Gaddis
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George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.
— Robert Dallek
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Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
— Fred Hammond
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My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin,…
— Clive Davis
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It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin…
— Roxane Gay
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Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership…
— Daniel H. Hill
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If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.
— Tom Metzger
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It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin…
— James Roosevelt
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Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk…
— Philippe Perrin
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It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as…
— Peter Jennings
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
— Earl Wilson
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I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
— Ann Richards
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In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason:…
— Michael Mandelbaum
Who Wrote These Franklin Quotes
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