Franklin Quotes - Page 9

• I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.

  Ed Crane

  Mistake, Thinking, America

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• I think there will be some people who think I did a great job, some people who will think, 'Hey, for a guy who did this for his first time, he didn't do too bad,' and some people will be like, 'Rich Franklin sucks.' It doesn't matter what you do, you will always have people on every side of that spectrum, so I would imagine for me it wouldn't be any different.

  Rich Franklin

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't think the rhetoric toward President Trump from media sources or media commentators is any worse than what Franklin Roosevelt got from a conservative press in another era. And Roosevelt was, you know, not as blunt as Trump about the press, but, you know, there was an ideological press back then, when we had multiple newspapers in town.

  Tom Rosenstiel

  Thinking, President, Conservative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until people were ready to make use of it. The same thing happens in literary circles. The truth is, I'm not terribly interested in Victorian times; I'm interested in Victorian writers. I'm interested in most eras of history, but not the Victorian Era especially. I was interested in the John Franklin Expedition. I was interested in these last five weird years of Dickens' life. And I just have to take the age that comes with all that when I write about it.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, People, Waiting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Sarcasm, Doe

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• Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'

  Michael Muhney

  Believe, Half, Said

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2014

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• If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American Revolution happened. I think if you want to be a good citizen of the digital age, it helps to feel comfortable with both the people and the ways of thinking that created the digital revolution.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

  Josh Turner

  Son, Knives, Fans

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• It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.

  Gore Vidal

  Teacher, Simple, Sea

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• When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.

  Chauncey Depew

  Dream, Home, Science

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

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• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Morning, Ocean, Adventure

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• The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Tombstone, Lying, Book

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• My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today?

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Hero, Men, History

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• I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was very average.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Thinking, Dna

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• Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

  Whitney Houston

  Knights, People, Taught

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• Hey, I'm like Aretha Franklin, I don't get no R -S -P -E -C -T around here!

  Si Robertson

  Hey

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• Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Children, Believe, Men

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing

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• Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  New York, Mean, Years

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• Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!" Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?" "No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Dad, Phones

  Rick Riordan (2016). “The 39 Clues 1: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones”, p.107, Scholastic UK

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• 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

  Drug, Noses, Ghost Town

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.113, Allison & Busby

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• Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

  George Will

  Party, Two, Office

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• Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

  Mike Wallace

  Boston, Russia, Rose

  "Larry King Interviews Mike Wallace". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• "Stupid English."
  "English isn't stupid," I say.
  "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me."
  "Why not?"
  "He says lunch isn't a subject."
  I glance at him. "It isn't."
  "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"

  Jodi Picoult

  Teacher, Stupid, Writing

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.

  Orson Scott Card

  Moving, Voice, World

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.90, Macmillan

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• From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.

  Oliver Stone

  Running, Helping, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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