Quotes About America Founding Fathers

#1. It was an early saying here [Massachusetts] that there were 'Roots enough to plant Hampshire County and Gunns enough to defend them.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#2. New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#3. Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes ...

David Mazzucchelli

#4. 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

#5. What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Epictetus

#6. If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 ... you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods ... that's where we're headed.

Michio Kaku

#7. 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utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.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

#8. TOTALLY AMERICAN" personifies the dreams, inspiration, and ambition of the American people at a time we need it most. Reach deep in tribute to our founding Fathers, our Constitution, and our brave military forces. This is the fabric of America!

Stu Taylor

#9. We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#10. And despite what the loudmouth liberal lunatics squawk, our Founding Fathers fully intended for the United States of America to be a Christian nation. Always has been, still is, forever should be.

Captain Chris

#11. The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened.

John Lennox

#12. Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."

Gore Vidal

#13. The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

Donald Freed

#14. America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.

Ronald Reagan

#15. It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#16. As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

William Osler

#18. 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

#19. The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

Michael Beschloss

#20. I like to watch. You're beautiful always but you're fucking breathtaking when you come. - Colin

Kristen Ashley

#21. The past is only a memory. Memories have no power to hurt you.

Jordan Castillo Price

#22. These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Ronald Reagan

#23. Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

John Linder

#24. How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Thomas Jefferson

#25. She's really gone, then...Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly...

Suzanne Collins

#26. Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

Amanda Beard

#27. 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

#28. Generally speaking, if a guy breaks your jaw and leg and cuts off your robotic arm, you file charges and get a restraining order. The only exception is when subtle machinations are needed to save the world from a massive, catastrophic alien takeover. But in no other circumstance.

Shannon Hale

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

John Adams

#30. My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

James Meredith

#31. Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.

Fareed Zakaria

#32. Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.

Dwight D. Eisenhower