C.C. Franklin Quotes

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Mine is better than ours.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Never confuse Motion with Action.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

On the sly, scoping for love.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

The proud hate pride in others.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

What good shall I do this day?

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.

Forewarn'd, forearm'd.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.