Constitution Quote by Thomas A. Edison

“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I…

— Thomas Edison

“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave,…

— Henry Noel Brailsford

“Paine’s pamphlet appealed to a wide range of colonial opinion angered by England. But it caused some tremors in aristocrats like John Adams, who…

— Howard Zinn

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

— Treat Williams

The greatest liberator in all of human history is Moses. So let's say he's a libertarian leader without a doubt. Then there are some…

— Javier Milei

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…

— Horace Mann

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

— Stephen King

George W. Bush - who I'm sure that a lot of people, when I say this, will not be happy about it - but…

— Frank Luntz

[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation…

— Alan Keyes

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

— Anonymous

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is…

— Sarah Palin