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
The founding fathers were great entrepreneurs. They shipped something akin to a software product: the first version of the 'ideological operating system'… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
“But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“John Updike said: “The founding fathers, in their wisdom, decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic. — William Barr Copy Share Image
There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“ . . . I have come to revere words like "democracy" and "freedom," the right to vote, the incomprehensibly beautiful origins… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“...the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected { George… — Bird Wilson Copy Share Image
The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
“It is not that the historian can avoid emphasis of some facts and not of others. This is as natural to him… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“These senators and representatives call themselves “leaders.” One of the primary principles of leadership is that a leader never asks or orders… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
“I knew I lived in a country founded on the murder of the body and the spirit of others. Native American nations… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“As many as half the people were not even considered by the Founding Fathers as among Bailyn’s “contending powers” in society. They… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and… — Edward Pearson Pressey Copy Share Image
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
“[The Founding Fathers] were not advocates for a monolithic notion of "God and Country," as promoters of a Christian America would now… — Brooke Allen Copy Share Image
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
