High level Quote by Charles Murray

In their admonitions to us, the Founders were very clear that to maintain a republic like ours, to maintain a constitutional republic - a…

— Mike Johnson

“So we passed, hand-cuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington through the Capital of a nation, whose theory of government, we are…

— Solomon Northup

As early as 1776, [John Adams] expressed his doubts about America's capacity for virtue. "I have seen all along my Life, Such Selfishness, and…

— Gordon S. Wood

“in 1788, he had become infatuated by the American republic and its spirit of “simplicity, goodness, and that dignity of man which is the…

— Tom Reiss

“virtue of the American frontier and its allegedly salubrious”

— Eithne Luibhéid

“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than…

— Roger Scruton

“It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law…

— Anonymous

For much of its history, Virginia, the 'cradle of American democracy,' failed to live up to our ideals. All too often, our Commonwealth still…

— Ralph Northam

“Assessing Miller's rebuttal and the 1895 convention, W.E.B. Du Bois made a sobering observation. Miller had, on some fundamental level, misunderstood the aims of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“those who now rule our nation are the antitheses of virtually everything this country, and all of its great thinkers and founders stood for…

— Joseph Befumo

“The founders were not democrats and socialists like Hertzberg. They were conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a…

— David Horowitz

“Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from…

— James Iredell