Our Founding Quotes

77 quotes by 58 authors

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
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding… — John McCain
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's… — Barack Obama
It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical… — Rick Perry
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way. — Martha Plimpton
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
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights… — Marco Rubio
We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a… — Marco Rubio
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles. — Paul Ryan
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding… — Paul Ryan
I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama… — Paul Ryan
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
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. — Stephen Colbert
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt… — Mark Levin
It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country. — Stephen Colbert
Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of… — Ronald Takaki
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty… — George W. Bush
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. — Unknown Author

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