Top 658 Founding Quotes & Sayings

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

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

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.

Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.

Moses is our true founding father.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

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.

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

Discrimination based on one's religion goes directly against our founding principles.

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

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

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

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

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

Forbes has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.

Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.

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

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Stop and think of what happened in America. The melting pot, yeah, it happened. Stop and think of what happened, from the first days of the founding. You have to go back to the Pilgrims. You have to include the Pilgrims in the founding. Why they came. What they learned on the way. What they learned after they got here. The Pilgrims, like everybody else, tried to establish a socialist collective. Bombed out. Didn't work. We know this, the governor wrote about it himself, William Bradford.

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

Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.

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.

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.

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

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.

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

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.

Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.

From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

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

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

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

Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.

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

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.

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

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

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

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

The original United States, the founding of America was indeed a shared culture. And you could argue that there was a diversity from the founding days, but not the way the left defines diversity today.

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.

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

The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind - men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh - who founded the English colonies in America.

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.

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 founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

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

Being the founding member of Loser, my decision to leave was not an easy one.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

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

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

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.

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

Asia is the founding land of competitive gaming.

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