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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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' 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
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
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
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?
— John Adams
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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
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Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt ...
— George Washington
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