America Quote by Leopold von Ranke

Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws…

— Max Horkheimer

“The business of America is business,’ said Calvin Coolidge”

— Hugh Brogan

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

— Bruce Feiler

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

— George Bancroft

“Again, for Wilson and the progressives, the American founding was simply a historical event distinct to its own moment and condition. Progress requires that…

— Mark R. Levin

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

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

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

— Bruce Feiler

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

— Will Rogers

In the beginning, all the world was America.

— John Locke

There's the unique case of Ronald Reagan, who cited [founders] some 850 times, and in a way that was absolutely fundamental to understanding Reagan's…

— Paul Kengor