Franklin Adams

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, read more

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon read more

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only read more

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation read more

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.