C.C. Franklin Quotes
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.
Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.
Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.
Someone says, 'oh, you know what? I'm going to give you a shot to see what you can do', and you've been praying for a promotion, now someone gives you an opportunity, that's a miracle.
We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.
Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.
Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.
The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.