- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forefathers Quotes
Sayings honoring heritage, ancestry, and legacy.
These quotes look back at what earlier generations built and endured, from healthier lifestyles to freedoms earned through real struggle. See more in Freedom.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see this on Wall Street today - I can see this with the securitization of everything is that, everything is looked at as a securitization opportunity. People are looked at as commodities. I don't believe that our forefathers had that same belief.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a new approach to life and government. They valued intellect and education. In fact, they outlined the principles of the United States' democracy to establish intellectual freedom from the Church.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.
- Each Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so that our sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, can enjoy the shade.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020