C.C. Franklin Quotes

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

The misers cheese is wholesomest

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

Those who laugh often never grow old.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Health and healing will follow fasting.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

What is the use of a new-born child ?

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

Necessity never made a good bargain.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

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

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.