Abandon Quote by H. W. Brands

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

— Jesse Helms

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

— David McCullough

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

— Paul Ryan

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to…

— George W. Bush

“To retreat from any of the principles handed down by our forefathers, who shed their blood for the ideals we still embrace, would be…

— Walt Disney

You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst…

— Richard J. Maybury

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be…

— Chris Christie

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down…

— Sam Altman

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that…

— Os Guinness

Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired…

— Ronald Reagan

“To me the way they were used, particularly the way their idealism and loyalty were exploited by leaders who themselves had lost faith in…

— Mark Bowden