Quotes About Founding

The founding generation would be amazed. It would be surprised. I think it would be very impressed by what has happened since then in terms of our exploding population; in terms of the success of this country economically and otherwise.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

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

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

Smith's argument is worth laying out in detail because it is, as I say, the great founding myth of the discipline of economics.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

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

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton