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Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. -- Mike Quigley
Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. -- Barack Obama
Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years. -- John Linder
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. -- Tom Rice
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all. -- George W. Bush
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. -- Steve King
Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation. -- Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers. -- Ronald Reagan
Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career. -- Rush Limbaugh
If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. -- Philip K. Howard
I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. -- Will Ferrell
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. -- Stephen Colbert
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. -- Ronald Reagan
Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs. -- Phil Robertson
And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative. -- Sharron Angle
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. -- Barry Goldwater
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. -- Steven Van Zandt
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. -- Chris Christie
I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today. -- Martha Raye
The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm. -- Ronald Reagan
The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets. -- Pat Buchanan
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. -- Ron Paul
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. -- Paul Tsongas
Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold. -- Neal Boortz
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. -- Judy Biggert
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. -- Ernest Istook
Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents. -- Paul Kengor
It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country. -- Stephen Colbert
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. -- LZ Granderson
The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. -- Ronald Reagan
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. -- Doc Hastings
I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated. -- David O. McKay
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. -- Marshall Herskovitz
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. -- Michael Badnarik
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom. -- Barack Obama
I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever. -- Ted Nugent
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority -- Barber B. Conable, Jr.
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves. -- Rick Santelli
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. -- Barber Conable
It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom. -- Dean Potter
Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers. -- Todd Tiahrt
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. -- Leigh Steinberg
Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life. -- Sarah Palin
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place. -- John M. McHugh
Have you seen the Olympic uniforms? It's for the American Olympic team and it's berets. To me, nothing says America like a guy in a beret. Look at our founding fathers, they all wore berets. -- David Letterman
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American. -- David Duchovny

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