Franklin Knight Lane famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Dream #Believe #Ideas
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Jobs #Opportunity #Office
I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Shadow #Flags
You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Flags #Glory #Makers
I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Baby #Office #Nine
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Party #States #Found
I am whatever you make me, nothing more.
-- Franklin Knight Lane
No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Jobs #Men #Office
My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Dream #Stars #Stripes
The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Fighting #Men #Odds
Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Men #Class #Newspapers

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