Franklin Quotes - Page 6

• I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

  John Adams

  Wise, Honesty, Blessing

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.267

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• But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place, which our species inhabited for most of its evolutionary life. That place that shaped our psyches and made us who we are. The place where nature is big and we are small.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Believe, Psych, Who We Are

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea of Home”, p.12, HarperCollins Australia

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• The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will be that Dr Franklins electrical Rod, Smote the Earth and out Spring General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his Rod - and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy Negotiations Legislation and War.

  John Adams

  Lying, War, Two

  John Adams' Letter to Benjamin Rush, founders.archives.gov. April 4, 1790.

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• Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.

  Mark Levin

  Justice, Decision, Abortion

  "Men in Black". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 1, 2005.

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• I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Peaceful

  Source: progressive.org

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• When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Doctors, Air

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.177

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• There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Years, Problem, Attributes

  Source: progressive.org

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• The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

  Mark Shields

  Progress, Littles, Add

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Resentment, Founders

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Believe, Bed, Half

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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.

  Should Have, Politician, Knows

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• My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Thinking, Teddy

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• Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fashion, Money, Couple

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• 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, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Discovery, World

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• Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

  Mark Twain

  No Trust, Rising, Benefits

  Mark Twain (1981). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 2: 1864 -1865”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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• Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

  Jane Pierce

  Political, Wish, Would Be

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• He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

  Winston Churchill

  Death, Soldier, Battle

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• Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity--
  Early to bed and early to rise
  Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
  As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Boys, Men

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• Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith.

  T. D. Jakes

  Life Lesson, Heart, Men

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• I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Sterling W Sill

  Wise, Men, Advice

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• Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

  David Gergen

  Style, Television, Radio

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• There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

  Peabo Bryson

  White, American History, Persons

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• And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart-a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there-and one day he looked up from a piece of snow-colored rice paper and knew he was done. It was as simple as that: you bent over your work night after night, and one day you were done. Snow still lay in dirty streaks on the ground but clusters of yellow-green flowers hung from the sugar maples.

  Steven Millhauser

  Morning, Dirty, Flower

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• My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Long, Nightmare

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