Franklin famous quotes
04-01-2025
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
-- Alan Bennett -
There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?
-- Beck -
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 and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
-- Burl Ives -
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
-- David Gergen -
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
-- Gaylord Nelson -
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
-- George Thorogood -
My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.
-- Jacob K. Javits -
Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.
-- John F. Kerry -
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
-- Jon Landau -
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
-- Ken Livingstone -
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
-- Lena Horne -
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
-- Peabo Bryson -
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.
-- Pete du Pont -
Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.
-- Rachel Caine -
Hey, I'm like Aretha Franklin, I don't get no R -S -P -E -C -T around here!
-- Si Robertson -
She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.
-- Trisha Yearwood -
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
-- Walter Isaacson -
Effective leaders at a high level tend to be skilled actors. Franklin Roosevelt is said to have to quipped, on being introduced to Orson Welles, that they were the two greatest actors in America. The story may be apocryphal, but the message rings true.
-- James M Strock -
Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'
-- Michael Muhney -
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. -
Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come out about the difficulties of their marital life, or the problems that Franklin gave Eleanor and his mother gave Eleanor, in many respects. We didn't know much about that.
-- William A. Rusher -
One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you can't always foresee the future. I'm sure their intentions were the best.
-- William A. Rusher -
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."
-- Gordon S. Wood
