Founding fathers Quotes

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

— Ronald Reagan

“Hamilton never had need of sandbags in his stockings.”

— Elizabeth Levy

“The answer to 1984 is 1776”

— Anonymous

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

— David Mazzucchelli

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

— Jesse Ventura

“Alexander Hamilton’s too much. He’s very extra a lot of the time.”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There's no doubt about that.

— Matthew Whitaker

Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.

— Wayne LaPierre

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

— Rush Limbaugh

You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.

— Glenn Beck

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of…

— James Clapper

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

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration…

— Paul Begala

Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes…

— Newt Gingrich

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

— Stephen Colbert

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy…

— Jim Gaffigan

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's…

— Michael Ignatieff

Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous…

— Robert Jensen

It is my firm belief that the God of Heaven raised up the founding fathers and inspired them to establish the Constitution…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they…

— John Linder

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they…

— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

“There can be no freedom without order, and there is no order without virtue. Now, that’s a simple enough formulation, but it’s…

— Ronald Reagan

All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the…

— Arianna Huffington

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to…

— Arundhati Roy

Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they…

— Charley Reese

“The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six resolutions: 1. We approve of…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward…

— Senator John Kerry

“The major premises of Christian religions are (1) the idea of Original Sin and (2) the belief in salvation through faith. Deists…

— Monica Sjöö

Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of…

— Earl Warren

“And so, at a December 1981 meeting, Contra leaders, whom Reagan referred to as the “moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers,” floated…

— Carol Anderson

“It is not the self respect and pride that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind to your children…

— Shannon L. Alder

“But what does America have to do with ancient Israel? Israel was unique among nations in that it was conceived and dedicated…

— Jonathan Cahn

The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.

— Chad Wolf

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

— Philip K. Howard

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

— Ernest Istook

Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.

— Steve Scalise

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

— Michael Beschloss