Franklin Carter

thumb| Franklin Carter (September 30, 1837 – November 22, 1919) was an American professor of Germanic and romance languages and served as President of Williams College from 1881 to 1901. Quotes thumb|One must believe that Westminster Abbey is a perpetual incentive to true patriotism; that beneath the constant influence of its noble monuments demagogues should not flourish. A nation is to be congratulated when it has many illustrious men in its history, to whom the people may look back with reverential love. Happy the people possessing among their dead a Washington, a Lincoln, a Grant. Each such name helps to hold the passing generations, with all their new problems and revolutionary impulses, in allegiance to the ideals of the past. One must believe that Westminster Abbey is a perpetual incentive to true patriotism; that beneath the constant influence of its noble monuments demagogues should not flourish. As one walks beneath those arches and reads the records of heroes who have died in various climes for England and mankind, of the statesmen and the authors who have for so many centuries been making the English language and ideas the most precious literary heritage of the world, one gets a profound impression of the solidity of English institutions, a firm confidence that widespread, deeply-penetrating roots will keep the English oak green for centuries to come. "The Sentiment of Reverence", Address at Phillips Exeter Academy, NH (May 6, 1886); Lectures Delivered before the Students of Phillips Exeter Academy, 1885–86 (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1887), p. 104 External links Harry C. Davis; John C. Bridgman (eds.) Brief Declamations, 2nd ed. (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1891), p. 224 Thomas J. Morgan (ed.) Patriotic Citizenship (New York: American Book Co., 1895), p. 30 J. A. McCormick, A Brief Dissertation on the Rise and Vicissitudes of the United States (Syracuse, NY, 1903), p. 5 Category:1837 births Category:1919 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:People from Connecticut Category:People from Massachusetts Category:Yale University alumni