C.C. Franklin Quotes

None are deceived but they that confide.

You know, I think people underestimate how miraculous getting a movie made is.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country.

Every shoebox offers an opportunity to share the Good News of the Savior with a hurting child

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

The best bet you get is an even break.

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.

When you're really tested, that's what shows you who you are as a person.

You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter.

For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

Spare when young, and spend when old.

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Great talkers are little doers.

As often as we do good, we sacrifice.