Franklin Knight Lane
Franklin Knight Lane
Franklin Knight Lanewas a political progressive and American Democratic politician from California who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1920. He also served as a commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of California in 1902, losing a narrow race in what was then a heavily Republican state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 July 1864
CountryUnited States of America
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My affairs here have not prospered and I am thinking of going somewhere else. Do you think Japan has anything to offer a man such as myself?
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For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
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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.
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I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation.
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Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
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No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
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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.
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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.
I am whatever you make me, nothing more.
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You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
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My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
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The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.
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I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.
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I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.