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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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- Nov 07, 2020
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.
- Answer
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
- Free Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but also with social issues that were unknown to the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago.
- Executive Branch
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.
- Delegates
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020