Founding Quotes

258 quotes by 196 authors

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting… — Jon Stewart
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or… — Jean Baudrillard
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests… — Mark Helprin
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt… — Mark Levin
So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more… — Christopher Hitchens
Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I… — Franz Kafka
It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country. — Stephen Colbert
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public serviceâ€”considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government… — Mark Levin
Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of… — Ronald Takaki
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty… — George W. Bush
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing… — Henry David Thoreau
Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually… — The Edge
Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but… — Helen Thomas
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding… — Robert Darnton
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. — Monica Crowley
Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important… — Vivek Wadhwa
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. — Unknown Author
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. — Mike Quigley
The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two. — Chellie Pingree

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