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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
- British Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
- Man
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!'
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
- American President
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a plant called Roger Franklin and he is really special. I'm not trying to sound weird, but he has a lot of personality and I talk to him every day. It's the first plant I've kept alive for longer than a week and I'm very proud of that. I try every day to make sure that he's happy.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020