Founding Quotes

258 quotes by 200 authors

Elvis Presley isÂ the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all… — Peter Noone
Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept… — Norman Lamm
Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are… — Michelle Alexander
Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has… — Charlie LeDuff
There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice.… — Charlie LeDuff
I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States… — Ayn Rand
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,… — Gutzon Borglum
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States. — Adam Fletcher
Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told… — Ronald Reagan
The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is my firm belief that the God of Heaven raised up the founding fathers and inspired them to establish the Constitution of this land.… — Ezra Taft Benson
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and… — Samuel Eliot Morison
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes… — Walter Isaacson
Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and… — John Cornyn
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. — Ernest Istook
Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and… — Jimmy Carter
Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning… — Neal Boortz
Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word 'democracy' does not… — Neal Boortz
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they… — Ayn Rand

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