Commonwealth Quote by Albert Bushnell Hart

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty……

— Clinton Rossiter

The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a vision and…

— Paul Kengor

There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human…

— Rush Limbaugh

“An American is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party, or the section in which he…

— David Barton

“Yet, more is at stake in this debate beyond simply acknowledging the religious inclinations of those people involved in the nation’s founding. The Founders…

— Steven K. Green

One of the foundational attributes of Americanism is our sense of brotherhood.

— Madison Cawthorn

“What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a…

— Joan Didion

Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we…

— George Hickenlooper

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their…

— Steve Cosson

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

“Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that was uniquely…

— Charles Murray

“Yet in the 1950s and '60s, a wide range of historians quickly and uncritically...[sought to] rule out of serious discussion of the American founding…

— William Hogeland