Founding Quotes

258 quotes by 200 authors

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to… — Ayn Rand
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none… — Thomas Szasz
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. — Ron Paul
Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy. — Dan Millman
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and… — John Ashcroft
By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our… — John F. Kennedy
Islam has always been a part of America's story...and since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. — Barack Obama
A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it.… — Philip D. Murphy
Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to "fine-tune" the economy… — Thomas DiLorenzo
The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire… — Jimmy Carter
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate… — Simon Schama
Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our… — Chester Middlebrook Pierce
The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and… — Jonathan Schell
The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. — Ronald Reagan
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our… — Ronald Reagan
I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. Â And I need the energy if I'm… — Jim Gaffigan
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a… — Mo Rocca
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our… — Ron Paul
Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are so antithetical to… — Bill Maher
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them,… — Bill Maher

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