Famous quotes containing the words franklin, county and/or fair:
“It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable man in society, never to contradict any body.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I loved. And a man will guard when he loves.
Their white-gowned democracy was my fair lady.
With her knife lying cold, straight, in the softness of her sweet-flowing sleeve.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)