According Quote by John Jay Hooker

In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.

— Gerald W. Johnson

“the Founders were concerned that the will of the people could easily become the preferences of the mob.”

— Condoleezza Rice

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the…

— Joe Conason

The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed…

— David Horowitz

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

— Philip K. Howard

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil,…

— Rand Paul

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

— Trish Regan

Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“The natural aristocracy, said Jefferson, was one of virtue or talents, and he contrasted this with an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth.…

— F. H. Buckley

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“when the country began, the Founders were unanimously of the opinion that their creation could work in practice only because of qualities that already…

— Charles Murray

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

— Anonymous