Franklin Quotes - Page 7

• Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, People, Understanding

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• Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

  John F. Kerry

  People, Harry Truman, Asks

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Sorry, Team

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

  David Gergen

  Style, Television, Radio

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Women, Thinking

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• I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

  Walter Isaacson

  Strong, Humility, Thinking

  "Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin book". Interview with Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. July 1, 2003.

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• 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

  Liberty, Bells, Streets

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• If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Night, Would Be

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• Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

  Steven Johnson

  Snow, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.108, Penguin

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• Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations.

  Charles S. Maier

  Government, Innovation, Calling

  Charles S. Maier (1987). “In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution.

  John Chadwick

  Taken, Men, Oath Of Office

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• I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wall, Humanity, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1987). “Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

  Karl Marx

  Cheating, War, Commerce

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Real, Numbers

  Rush H. Limbaugh (1994). “See, I Told You So”, Pocket Books

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• Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Character, Men, Would Be

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1993). “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

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• [Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Chinese, President, Sun

  "The Human Odyssey: Volume 2". Book by Tanim Ansary et al, p. 653,

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• Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

  Alan Bennett

  Memories, Garlands, Shackles

  1968 Forty Years On (published1969), act 2.

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