One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
For as long as (the Founding Fathers of this nation) lived and led, they acknowledged the hand of the Almighty in the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image