Franklin Knight Lane

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

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

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.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.