Founding Quotes

258 quotes by 200 authors

For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that… — Barack Obama
... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole… — Plato
We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the… — Sarah Palin
Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration… — Ezra Taft Benson
Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to more information and… — Mark Zuckerberg
As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet — Al Gore
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from… — Henri Lefebvre
For as long as (the Founding Fathers of this nation) lived and led, they acknowledged the hand of the Almighty in the affairs of this… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during… — Thomas Paine
The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them… — P.J. O'Rourke
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for… — Hugo Black
Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do… — Leigh Steinberg
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world… — Mircea Eliade
Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live… — Phil Robertson
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the… — James Hillman
I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to… — Dana Rohrabacher
This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.... — John Ashcroft
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made… — James Meredith
The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women… — Melissa Harris-Perry

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