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

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. — Michael J. Findley

Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction. — John Adams

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

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

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

Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess. — Newt Gingrich

You can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede. — Glenn Beck

Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain. — John Adams

It was an early saying here [Massachusetts] that there were 'Roots enough to plant Hampshire County and Gunns enough to defend them. — Edward Pearson Pressey

What is it the Bible teaches us?
rapine, cruelty, and murder. — Thomas Paine

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

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. — Mike Quigley

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated. — David O. McKay

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

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

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. — LZ Granderson

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

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion. — Bill O'Reilly

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. — James Meredith

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. — Ron Chernow

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

I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses. — Marc Andreessen

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. — Benjamin Franklin

Natural law is superior as it allows for the pursuit of virtue genuinely initiated from within and themselves. — Patrick Mendis

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

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights. — J.S.B. Morse

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason. — Rupert Murdoch

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

The answer to 1984 is 1776 — Alex E. Jones

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

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

The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious. — David Ignatius

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! — Thomas Jefferson

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

we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death! — Susan Cain

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. — George Washington

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

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. — Will Ferrell

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. — Benjamin Franklin

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power. — Tom Coburn

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

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

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. — Sam Ervin

The moral equal of our Founding Fathers. — Ronald Reagan

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

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

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams

[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. — Bruce Fein

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. — Doc Hastings

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

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career. — Rush Limbaugh

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

Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt ... — George Washington

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty. — John Adams

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

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

They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington ... — Claire Vaye Watkins