15 Quotes by Franklin Knight Lane

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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