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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible… — Barber Conable
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. — LZ Granderson
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... — David Mazzucchelli
Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set… — Todd Tiahrt
But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly,… — Larry Elder
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
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
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
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
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic… — Dallin H. Oaks
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe… — Ronald Reagan
America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas… — Ronald Reagan
It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning… — Liam Neeson
It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been… — Barack Obama
Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those… — Matt Shea
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. — Philip K. Howard
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the… — Robert Jensen
Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to… — Bill Bright
Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could come and sit… — Dennis Miller
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. — Hugo Black

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