C.C. Franklin Quotes
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.
To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.
This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.
