Founding Quotes
258 quotes by 200 authors
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
— Antonin Artaud
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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called…
— Michael Badnarik
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in…
— Evan Bayh
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about…
— Charles A. Beard
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The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a…
— James Bovard
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What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
— Bertolt Brecht
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
— Bertolt Brecht
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Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on…
— Benjamin Carson
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The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
— Ron Chernow
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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance…
— Chris Christie
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And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw…
— Sharron Angle
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A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding…
— Bob Dole
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A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be…
— Eric Cantor
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And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's…
— Dennis Miller
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Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant - they're quite clear - that we would create law based on the God…
— Sarah Palin
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Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they…
— Ronald Reagan
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility…
— Ronald Reagan
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Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid…
— Rick Perry
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While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the…
— Barack Obama
Who Wrote These Founding Quotes
200 authors contributed a total of 258 Founding Quotes, led by these top contributors: