C.C. Franklin Quotes

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.

Innocence is its own defense.

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time

Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

The used key is always bright.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.