Quotes About Franklin

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

The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

I've tried to stalk Danzig. I've walked by his house on Franklin that looks super haunted and scary, but I've never seen him.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

The delegates from the southern states insisted that slaves were property, like horses and sheep, and therefore should not be counted as "Inhabitants." Franklin countered this claim with an edgy joke, observing that slaves, the last time he looked, did not behave like sheep: "Sheep will never make any insurrections.

We honeymooned on the SS Franklin," Max said. "We were the onboard entertainment even though it was Millie's first time onstage. When I saw this house for sale a couple years later, I knew we had to have it." "It reminds me of the Titanic," Nicole said under her breath. "Post-iceberg. Assuming it had mowed down a flock of flamingos first.

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Both Eleanor Roosevelt and Louis Howe recognized from the outset that Franklins spirit would be destroyed if his political ambitions were throttled. If he didn't have political hope; he would die spiritually, intellectually and in his personality.

That Mack and Perkins considered Franklin the best choice had little to do with their perception that the young law clerk had within him the makings of a leader. The key to their interest lay in the resonance of the Roosevelt name in Republican circles.

This was no dictator or Messiah holding forth. Franklin Roosevelt spoke in the name of the people for a resurgence of the strength of democracy, for a constitutional system capable of meeting "every stress" without losing its essential form.

Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Those who would sacrifice essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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.

Yeah, I want a job in Barack's Cabinet. How about a job, Mr. Obama? Please? Please?

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.