C.C. Franklin Quotes

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Security without liberty is called prison.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.