Founding Quotes

258 quotes by 196 authors

I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned… — Nandan Nilekani
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment,… — Noah Feldman
The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through… — Matt Salmon
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third… — David Novak
All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents… — Dave Brat
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to… — Dave Brat
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government. — Marshall Herskovitz
Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of… — Joe Wurzelbacher
The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents. — Eric Holder
Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started,… — Cory Booker
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing… — J M Coetzee
I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were… — Joseph Cummins
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. — David Gross
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq. — Jalal Talabani
We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. — Doc Hastings
The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means. — Paul Gillmor
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to… — Ron Chernow
This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966… — Frederick Reines

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