Franklin Knight Lane Quotations

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.

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.

My opponent was the present Attorney General of the State, W. F. Fitzgerald, a very capable man, and probably the best man on the Republican ticket.

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.

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

The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

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.