Franklin Knight Lane Quotes

• A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Office

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• I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

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  Shadow, Flags, Flag Day

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• 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.

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  Dream, Believe, Ideas

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• The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

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  Fighting, Men, Odds

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• My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

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  Dream, Stars, Stripes

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• I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

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• You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

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  Flags, Glory, Flag Day

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• I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

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  Baby, Office, Nine

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• 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.

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  Party, Personal Worth, States

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• No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

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  Jobs, Men, Should Have

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• Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

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  Men, Class, Newspapers

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