Enlightened Founding Fathers Quotes

#1. It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Aleister Crowley

#2. Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.

Linda Lingle

#3. Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Plato

#4. It's not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It's really about trust.
- Jameson Rook, Heat Rises

Richard Castle

#5. My goal is to never stop growing.

Monica Wright

#6. The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#7. Racial dialogues are microcosms of race relations in the United States; reenact the biases, prejudices, and stereotypes of the wider society; invalidate and punish dissenting voices; and force compliance on groups of color.

Derald Wing Sue

#8. She had told herself she should be reassured by his squeamishness; a man who balked at scars would not give her new ones. Now she suddenly wondered if she'd had it wrong. A man without scars would always underestimate their value. He would not see them as marks of courage.

Meredith Duran

#9. If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Irwin Shaw

#10. Life by day and Death by night.So,where do you belong?

Claudia Martin

#11. I am the one who needs rescuing. Save me ( ... ) Save me from going back to being the man I was before I came here. Save me from all the years of loneliness I'll have to endure without you in my arms. Save me from spending the rest of my life longing for a woman I can never have.

Teresa Medeiros

#12. Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.

Patrick Mendis

#13. You can weave your life so long
only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.

Patricia A. McKillip

#14. America's forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.

Dan Brown