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Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It… — Earl Warren
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity… — Paul Tsongas
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding… — Claire McCaskill
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized. — Michael Beschloss
... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers. — Ronald Reagan
The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in… — Harry Reid
Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought… — Charley Reese
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and… — Ronald Reagan
The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own… — Winona LaDuke
It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get… — Donald Miller
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been… — Barry Goldwater
I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. — Will Ferrell
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government… — Steve King
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because… — Mark Levin
The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people… — Rush Limbaugh
If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know,… — Michael Moore
The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what… — Bill O'Reilly
How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative,… — Ron Paul
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were… — Colin Powell
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over… — Rick Santelli
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that… — Joseph Sobran
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called… — John Updike
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's… — Jesse Ventura
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government. — Jesse Ventura
The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth… — Juan Williams

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