Independence Founding Fathers Quotes

#1. Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

John Adams

#2. The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,' observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. 'All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.

Steven Erikson

#3. 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 great struggle for independence.

Charles A. Beard

#4. Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

Otto Von Bismarck

#5. There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.

A.R. Rahman

#6. My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

Pauly Shore

#10. The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Aristotle.

#11. Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#12. John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes.

Tom Standage

#13. No artist has ethical sympathies.

Oscar Wilde

#14. She sighed. "Oh, God, to be in the flyship cruising through the void. That's what I long for: an infinite void. With no human voices, no human smells, no human jaws masticating plastic chewing gum in nine iridescent colors.

Philip K. Dick

#15. I think the public will judge if stardom has gotten into my head.

Majid Michel

#16. Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.

Jon Stewart

#17. It is sobering to 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