Franklin Knight Lane's Quotes

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.

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

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.

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

I have great faith in the jury system.

I think most folks are good folks.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.