#franklin

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

#american #american history #aretha #aretha franklin #every

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. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#benjamin #benjamin franklin #constitution #credited #franklin

Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#back #bigger #deeper #delano #depression

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#aretha franklin #around #being #flack #franklin

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#feasts #food #fools #franklin #food

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#because #boston #came #delano #different

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

— Earl Warren

#ben #discovered #franklin #invented #made

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#champagne #drinking #first #franklin #franklin roosevelt

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

— David R. Gergen

#franklin #franklin roosevelt #radio #reagan #ronald

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