Founding Quotes - Page 22

• Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

  Michelle Alexander

  African American, Crow, Needs

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.21, The New Press

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• That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Courage, Strong, Father

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• The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Father, Real, Native American

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Dream, Children

  "Why we can't wait".

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• 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

  Religious, Wall, Father

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

  John C. Reilly

  School, Swings, Dragons

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• There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Reason, Cautious

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• 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

  Father, Inspiration, Return

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.26, Harmony

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• You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.

  Brad Stine

  Happiness, Christian, Country

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• Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic - or, in the past, Czechoslovakia - would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn't been for the communist takeover in 1948.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Past, Czech Republic, Europe

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt to bolster a growing reliance on the government--especially the judiciary--as the source of our rights. But if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Rights, Government, Effort

  Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.53, Regnery Publishing

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• Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Reality, Men, Political

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• If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

  John Linder

  Strong, War, Father

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

  Mark Levin

  Principles, Politics, Tyranny

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Jesus, Faith Religion

  Diary of John Adams, www.beliefnet.com. February 13, 1756.

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• ... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Opposites, Trying

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• If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Father, Live For Today, Alive

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• It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

  Newt Gingrich

  Father, Squares, Barriers

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• The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Character, Past

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• A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home.

  Eric Cantor

  Country, Children, Mistake

  "Eric Cantor: Dreamers 'Should Receive Pathway To Citizenship'" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 02, 2013.

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• In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Needs

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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• It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Father, Corporations

  "Stephen Colbert's run for US presidency raises $1m" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

  Franz Kafka

  Children, Insecure, Littles

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater: Bilingual Edition”, p.55, Schocken

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• So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Mean, Justice

  "Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.

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