Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Dear Founding Fathers, I adore the electoral college. It makes life much easier for us actually. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose,… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“These ignoble acts of terrorism reawakened in all of us an appreciation for our blessed land,... Ours is the most favored nation… — James Faust Copy Share Image
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, both my mom and my dad worked night shifts, so we would spend a lot of time… — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
Our country was founded on protest. If it was just shut up and honor your country no matter what, we'd still be… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Our democracy has built-in defenses that keep us strong and healthy, including the checks and balances written into our Constitution. Our Founding… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
“For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection,… — John Winthrop Copy Share Image
“This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 that the establishment of… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“James Monroe served as the fifth President of the United States between 1817 and 1825. He was from Virginia and the last… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was… — Farrell Till Copy Share Image
“Another view of the Constitution was put forward early in the twentieth century by the historian Charles Beard (arousing anger and indignation,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“But what does America have to do with ancient Israel? Israel was unique among nations in that it was conceived and dedicated… — Jonathan Cahn Copy Share Image
“We like to keep separate the evils of our national past from the sacredness of our ideals. That separation allows us to… — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. — Bruce Fein Copy Share Image
The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of… — Paris Jackson Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years. — John Linder Copy Share Image
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