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Franklin Knight Lane

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A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.


— Franklin Knight Lane


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For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.


— Franklin Knight Lane


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I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.


— Franklin Knight Lane


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I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.


— Franklin Knight Lane


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It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.


— Franklin Knight Lane


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My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.


— Franklin Knight Lane


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


— Franklin Knight Lane


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No man should have a political office because he wants a job.


— Franklin Knight Lane


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Mather a self-made millionaire and member of the Sierra Club had written Lane a bitter letter in late 1914 complaining that the national parks were being exploited for private profit. Lane and his ally fellow Commissioner Balthasar H. Lane made many effective speeches for the Committee on Public Information.

Newspapers reported that it was often said of Lane that had he not been born in what is now Canada he would have become president. Because of two decades of poorly paid government service and the expenses of his final illness he left no estate and a public fund was establiFranklin Knight Laned to support his widow. Appointed a commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission by U.

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