Founding Fathers Quotes

Founding Fathers Quote of the day

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

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

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.

Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

Have you seen the Olympic uniforms? It's for the American Olympic team and it's berets. To me, nothing says America like a guy in a beret. Look at our founding fathers, they all wore berets.

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

Give me liberty or give me d

Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.

The answer to 1984 is 1776

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

Give me liberty or give me death.".]