Quotes about Founding fathers

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Give me liberty or give me death.".] — Patrick Henry
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. — Michael J. Findley, Antidisestablishmentarianism
Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression wi — Tiffany Madison
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth e — Thomas Jefferson
The answer to 1984 is 1776 — Alex E. Jones
Give me liberty or give me d — Patrick Henry
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid — Thomas Paine
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they — Ron Paul
Jay was attacked with peculiar venom. Near his New York home, the walls of a building were defaced with the gigantic wor — Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we — John Winthrop
He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that t — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
How grossly are they mistaken in imagining slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran! Are not the two precepts, to quote n — Benjamin Franklin
It was because 'in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.' The basic principle of the American Republic is the — Joseph Lewis, An Atheist Manifesto
Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolu — Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction. — John Adams
When the same lessons of life that taught them teaches you, you get a good understanding of what made them become who an — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our g — Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and no — John Adams
I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our g — Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
As the American Patriots imagined it, a federal relationship would be a kind of confession of first principles or covena — George Grant, The Magdeburg Confession: 13th of April 1550 AD