Founding Quotes · Page 19

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth —…

— Benjamin Franklin

Have you seen the Olympic uniforms? It's for the American Olympic team and it's berets. To me, nothing says America like a…

— David Letterman

Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a…

— David Harsanyi

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed…

— Chris Christie

Show me one single patriot who has ever been in Barack Obama's life in any position of influence. You can't do it...…

— Brad Thor

From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal…

— Hal Rothman

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of…

— John Adams

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

— A. Powell Davies

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

— George Washington

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

— Thomas Paine

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between…

— Jimmy Carter

I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should…

— Louis Farrakhan

Islam has always been a part of America's story...and since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.

— Barack Obama

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

— James Madison

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts…

— Christopher Hitchens

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing…

— Benjamin Franklin

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

— Paul Ryan

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines…

— Thomas Jefferson

Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and…

— Mao Zedong

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

— Bruce Fein

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed…

— Igor Babailov

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the…

— Cameron Sinclair