Founding Quotes

258 quotes by 196 authors

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way. — Martha Plimpton
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. — John Podhoretz
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were… — Colin Powell
I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I… — John C. Reilly
The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation. — Pat Robertson
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights… — Marco Rubio
We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a… — Marco Rubio
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles. — Paul Ryan
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding… — Paul Ryan
I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama… — Paul Ryan
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over… — Rick Santelli
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that… — Joseph Sobran
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called… — John Updike
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's… — Jesse Ventura
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government. — Jesse Ventura
The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth… — Juan Williams
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. — Dan Savage
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. — Ron Paul
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
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the countryâ€™s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement,… — Barack Obama

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