Quotes About Founding

quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

Discrimination based on one's religion goes directly against our founding principles.

Religious freedom is a proud founding principle of America and ethnic bigotry flies in the face of American principles of liberty and equality.

From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States.

Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics.

The United States is a country founded on the ideal of freedom and equality, values later underlined by key historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

Progress in our country has always been too slow, and creating change has always been difficult, but we must continue marching towards those ideals written in our founding documents - that all people are to be treated equally under our laws.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

That's the permanent mission our Founding Fathers left us—moving toward the "more perfect union.

The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.

Our sport was founded on the tournament.

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

I do not believe that the founding fathers intended for a fourth branch of government to emerge — that of special interest groups.

Our country was founded on protest. If it was just shut up and honor your country no matter what, we'd still be flying the Union Jack. That's not what our founding fathers did. They didn't like what was going on, and they broke away and formed their own country.

Shortly after the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the seventeenth century, some Puritans lamented a decline from earlier virtue.

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.