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Franklin Quotes
From Benjamin Franklin's wisdom to musical and wartime legacies.
This page brings together quotes about people who share the name Franklin, from founding father Benjamin Franklin's foreign policy instincts to soul legend Aretha Franklin's lasting musical influence. Wartime leadership also gets its due here. Continue with our Franklin Roosevelt collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none - including President Lincoln.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack.
- Dating
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Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.
- People
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I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.
- Every American
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In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.
- Best
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Aretha Franklin holds a significant place in the collective heart of America. She's a singular example of what we represent at our best.
- Legal
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Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.
- Mother
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The States is run by the Federal Reserve, an institution that answers only to itself and to a few large banks. It's modelled on the Bank of England. Ben Franklin said that one of the main reasons America revolted was to get away from the Bank of England, the mother of all central banks - the most pernicious and insidious of all.
- Father
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My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- Confidence
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Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Mind
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Like when you hear Aretha Franklin sing - it touches your soul. Crunk music, it makes you just wanna lose your mind - just be free and wild out.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, my gosh, I'm listening to everything from Bruno Mars to Beyonce, to Arthea Franklin and Patti LaBelle.
- Columbus
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
- People
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
- People
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed 'muck-middens,' as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few.
- Dealers
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- Nov 07, 2020