Top 411 Franklin Quotes & Sayings

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land.

You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

Hey, I'm like Aretha Franklin, I don't get no R -S -P -E -C -T around here!

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'

Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come out about the difficulties of their marital life, or the problems that Franklin gave Eleanor and his mother gave Eleanor, in many respects. We didn't know much about that.

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

I was fortunate enough to meet Aretha Franklin but I was so overwhelmed that I just burst out crying.

To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today?

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

Aretha Franklin does not like me.

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.

Aretha Franklin, first and foremost... That's my top girl there.

Aretha Franklin is and will always be a national treasure.

We are very proud of the diverse talents within the Franklin Mint's own walls.

I think James Franklin is a great coach. I'm a huge fan.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle

I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

I love Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, and The Supremes, because I'm kind of old-school at heart.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

[John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all the adulation paid to Franklin in Paris does he begin to change his tune.

There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it." A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it? If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

I want the people of Franklin County to know how much I care about them.

Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'

[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

I've been offered the role of Franklin Roosevelt, and I wouldn't presume to undertake it.

Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"

Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.

I always loved James Brown, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke.