C.C. Franklin Quotes

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.

Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

This nation asks for action, and action now.

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.

Books cannot be killed by fire.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

The first twelve years are the hardest.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

I love it--I just love it.

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.