Top 1200 Us Founding Fathers Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

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

Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.

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.

Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

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

I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.

We can only solve our biggest problems if we come together and embrace the freedoms that our Founding Fathers established right here in Philadelphia, which permitted our ancestors to create the great American exceptionalism that all of us now enjoy.

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

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.

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

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.

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 had just four Cabinet departments and the postmaster general.

Conservatives don't need to look for 'hope' in a person because people are imperfect. Conservatives put their stock in the ideology ushered forth by our Founding Fathers, the ideals that keep us free men.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

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.

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

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

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.

Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.

We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate in order to bring pressure on their governments. And they gave us a free press. They understood that you might have in the presidency someone who wanted to arrogate power into themselves. And they believed that was dangerous, having just experienced King George. And so they built a balanced system.