American founding fathers Quote by Condoleezza Rice

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge when those…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The Constitution created a system of checks and balances designed to prevent the president from becoming a king or a dictator. Our founders had…

— Jessica Tarlov

We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear…

— Mike Huckabee

The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.

— Trish Regan

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a…

— Roy Moore

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and…

— James Clapper

The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society…

— Nancy Pearcey

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was…

— Ezra Taft Benson

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this:…

— Mark Levin

What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution -…

— Luke Scott