Our Founding Fathers Quotes - Page 10

• Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

  John Quincy Adams

  4th Of July, Events, World

  John Quincy Adams; Speech on Independence Day in Newburyport, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 4, 1837.

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• If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

  George Washington

  Country, Paper, Body

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• 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.

  New York, Father, Hands

  Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.

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• I’m not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; I’m right there with our founding fathers. I’m a patriot and a Christian, and I’m moving forth with what they started. But now it’s gotten to where I’m some kind of nut or Bible beater.
  I say, so be it. I’ll still go across the country spreading God’s Word, like I’ve done since I was twenty-eight. I may be only one man reading Scripture and quotes, carrying his Bible, and blowing duck calls to crowds, but, hey, it has to start somewhere. It’s what makes me happy, happy, happy.

  Phil Robertson

  Christian, Country, Father

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Father, Real, Democracy

  "Democracy Isn’t Freedom" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. February 7, 2005.

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• 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.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Father, Support, Drug

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• In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

  Samuel Adams

  Mind, Atheism, Age

  John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”

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• I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Men, Long

  "The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin".

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• Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.

  Chester Middlebrook Pierce

  Children, Father, School

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• The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

  Harry Reid

  Father, Government, Abuse

  "How Schumer and Dems may have sealed Gorsuch's confirmation" by Alex Diaz, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2017.

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• 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

  Country, Father, Writing

  "Tea Party Choice Scrambles in Taking On Reid in Nevada". www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2010.

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• Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Father, Careers, Congress

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• If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

  Chuck Grassley

  Father, Responsibility, Writing

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• 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

  Father, Simple, Government

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• ... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Father, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

  Arianna Huffington

  Country, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

  Will Ferrell

  Father, Today, Way

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• 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

  Country, Father, Believe

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• 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

  Father, Men, Flying

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

  John Quincy Adams

  Events, Founding Fathers Religion, Chains

  John Quincy Adams (1837). “An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at Their Request, on the Sixty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837”, p.5

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• 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

  Father, Men, Rights

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• [I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

  John Adams

  Liberty, Foundation, Principles

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.401

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• This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. This bill, while crafted with good intentions, is rife with constitutional infringements I could not support.

  Butch Otter

  Father, Hands, Law

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• 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

  Teacher, Father, Offering

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