C.C. Franklin Quotes

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.

Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.

Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.

When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.

God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

The word "dis-aster," in fact, means "bad star."

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.