Franklin Quotes - Page 4

• My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

  Lionel Barber

  Father, America, Special

  Lionel Barber's Fulbright lecture, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2011.

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• In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

  Winston Churchill

  Champion, Comfort, World

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.417, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Ideas, People, Firsts

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• Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

  Walter Lippmann

  Political, Genius, Answers

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.500, Harvard University Press

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• Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Enlightenment, Principles

  "Education and Democracy". Talk at Michigan State University, March 28, 1995.

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• When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

  Bertrand Russell

  England And America, Support, Lightning

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.92, Routledge

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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 am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

  James A. Michener

  Plato, Thinking, People

  "The World Is My Home". Book by James A. Michener, 1991.

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• How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Apples, Hints

  "Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.

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• And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alone four times, if he hadn't. Now, at the same time he acquired over the years a reputation for being sympathetic to blacks, and he got their votes, heaven knows.

  William A. Rusher

  Country, Years, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

  Sharron Angle

  People, Conservative, Said

  The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

  Lena Horne

  Want, Ability, Wanted

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• After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.

  Oliver Stone

  Wall, Father, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

  Walter Isaacson

  Writing, Biographies, Humans

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• Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Progress, Add, Littles

  Congressional Record, Volume 151, Part 19, p. 25337, November 08, 2005.

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• 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

  Firsts, Ends, Mark

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• Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

  Jon Landau

  Song, Voice, Sound

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• Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Voice, Rays

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• Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

  Jon Meacham

  War, President, Thumbs

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• I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

  Jon Meacham

  Believe, Greatness, Elderly

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• I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Return, Principles

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• The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

  Tim Ferriss

  Wise, Book, Healthy

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• Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

  Craig Ferguson

  Paris, Next, Knows

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• The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Voice, Knows, Ifs

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• Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

  Russell Baker

  Years, President, Might

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