- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Founding Fathers Quotes
Timeless words on liberty, republic, and the vision that built a nation.
These founding fathers quotes capture the ideals woven into the birth of a republic, from personal liberty to the moral foundations early leaders believed a free society needed. Explore more Democracy quotes for related civic reflections.
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- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
America, to me, is this enormous contrast between the heady idealism of founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, who said, 'All men are created equal,' and the reality that he was himself a slave owner.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
- Break Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020