Top 1200 Debt By Founding Fathers Quotes & Sayings

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

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.

I go all the way back to the Founding Fathers. I see the miracle of the founding of this country. It is so special, it's so unique. What needs to be emulated around the world is the United States.

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

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

You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.

The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent to stop government action. The Constitution limited government. And that's why people like Obama and Democrats call it a charter of negative liberties because it limits government. It's an anti-government, pro-citizen document. And the founders wanted to make it hard.

When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.

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

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

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

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history - north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans.

You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.

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.

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

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

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

I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t.

In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence.

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There's no doubt about that.

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

Soliciting anything of value from a foreign national to help a U.S. campaign is not just illegal; it is the Founding Fathers' nightmare.

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

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

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.

The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.

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

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

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are so antithetical to theirs. I'm talking of course about the Founding Fathers, who the Teabaggers believe are just like them, but aren't. One is a group of exclusively white men who live in a bygone century, have bad teeth, and think of blacks as 3/5 of a person, and the other are the Founding Fathers.

The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal opportunity, achievement and prosperity and sows the seeds of its own destruction.

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

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

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

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 Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

The Founding Fathers had just four Cabinet departments and the postmaster general.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in line within the bounds of the Constitution. The Founding Fathers said that armed citizens are a bulwark against a tyrant in the White House.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

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.

It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency.

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.