Founding Quotes

Founding Quote of the day

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

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.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

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

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

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

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

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

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

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

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

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

The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened.

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.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

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.

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

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

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.

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

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.

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.

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