Quotes about Founding

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. Votes: 6

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized. Votes: 4

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. Votes: 4

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. Votes: 4

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Votes: 4

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. Votes: 4

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. Votes: 4

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. Votes: 4

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country. Votes: 4

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. Votes: 4

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers. Votes: 4

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. Votes: 4

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not? Votes: 4

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.' Votes: 4

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 struggle for independence. Votes: 4

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution. Votes: 4

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. Votes: 4

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it. Votes: 4

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits. Votes: 3

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. Votes: 3

Well, I have the same vision I think that the Founding Fathers of this country had. Votes: 3

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.... Votes: 3

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts. Votes: 3

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. Votes: 3

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion. Votes: 3

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. Votes: 3

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. Votes: 3

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual... Votes: 3

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything. Votes: 3

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. Votes: 3

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. Votes: 3

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square. Votes: 3

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated. Votes: 3

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue. Votes: 3

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it. Votes: 3

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution. Votes: 3

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made Votes: 3

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. Votes: 3

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves. Votes: 3

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority Votes: 3

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad. Votes: 3

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. Its a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models. Votes: 3

Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were. Votes: 3

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal opportunity, achievement and prosperity and sows the seeds of its own destruction. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in...the Constitution, leaving the other powers to people...or to the states. Votes: 3

It's government's job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don't believe that, you shouldn't be in Congress. Votes: 3

I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks. Votes: 3

When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix. Votes: 3

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in the state, nor the legislature, nor in any other human power - but in God alone. Votes: 3

The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined. Votes: 3

I go all the way back to the Founding Fathers. I see the miracle of the founding of this country. It is so special, it's so unique. What needs to be emulated around the world is the United States. Votes: 3

I go all the way back to the Founding Fathers. I see the miracle of the founding of this country. It is so special, it's so unique. What needs to be emulated around the world is the United States. Votes: 3

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." Votes: 3

It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community. Votes: 3

The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Votes: 3

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government. Votes: 3

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything. Votes: 3

The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned. Votes: 3

Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Votes: 3

Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution. Votes: 3

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church. Votes: 3

They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in line within the bounds of the Constitution. The Founding Fathers said that armed citizens are a bulwark against a tyrant in the White House. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government. Votes: 3

One legislator accused me of having a 19th century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an 18th century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law abiding citizens should be one of government's primary concerns. Votes: 3

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties. Votes: 3

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it. Votes: 3

Forbes has championed entrepreneurism since its founding. Votes: 2

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? Votes: 2

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. Votes: 2

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? Votes: 2

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning. Votes: 2

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way. Votes: 2

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation. Votes: 2

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government. Votes: 2

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more. Votes: 2

I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved. Votes: 2

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee. Votes: 2

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. Votes: 2

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country. Votes: 2

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule. Votes: 2

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote. Votes: 2

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. Votes: 2

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently. Votes: 2

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government. Votes: 2

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. Votes: 2

Moses is our true founding father. Votes: 0

'Forbes' has championed entrepreneurism since its founding. Votes: 0

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career. Votes: 0

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers. Votes: 0

The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy. Votes: 0

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government. Votes: 0

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments. Votes: 0

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. Votes: 0

You can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede. Votes: 0

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles. Votes: 0

Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country. Votes: 0

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles. Votes: 0

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. Votes: 0

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... Votes: 0

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet Votes: 0

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. Votes: 0

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com. Votes: 0

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. Votes: 0

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. Votes: 0

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States. Votes: 0

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents. Votes: 0

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative. Votes: 0

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power. Votes: 0

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. Votes: 0

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom. Votes: 0

Islam has always been a part of America's story...and since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. Votes: 0

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country. Votes: 0

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States. Votes: 0

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets. Votes: 0

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer. Votes: 0

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. Votes: 0

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception. Votes: 0

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate. Votes: 0

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. Votes: 0

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him. Votes: 0

I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Votes: 0

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot. Votes: 0

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. Votes: 0

Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom. Votes: 0

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise. Votes: 0

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. Votes: 0

Goddard was not personally religious; his most immediate and consistent motivation was a desire for recognition as the founding genius of rocket science. Votes: 0

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values. Votes: 0

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government. Votes: 0

The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two. Votes: 0

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. Votes: 0

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split. Votes: 0

Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company. Votes: 0

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably. Votes: 0

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. Votes: 0

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state. Votes: 0

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time. Votes: 0

It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a part of the current political season. Votes: 0

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas. Votes: 0

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom. Votes: 0

There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human being to become. Votes: 0

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever. Votes: 0

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead"¦ Votes: 0

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible. Votes: 0

The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Votes: 0

One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly understand the American founding. Votes: 0

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. Votes: 0

Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles. Votes: 0

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence. Votes: 0

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution. Votes: 0

This nation has gotten away from the principles of the founding fathers under the failed leadership of Barack Obama. This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again. Votes: 0

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. Votes: 0

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head. Votes: 0

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy. Votes: 0

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State. Votes: 0

Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought. Votes: 0

The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed. Votes: 0

You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited. Votes: 0

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding. Votes: 0

This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s. Votes: 0

I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now. Votes: 0

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe. Votes: 0

We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God."Ž Votes: 0

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence. Votes: 0

Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach. Votes: 0

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place. Votes: 0

First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team. Votes: 0

Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life. Votes: 0

Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out. Votes: 0

Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation. Votes: 0

One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing. Votes: 0

If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round. Votes: 0

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is. Votes: 0

For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. Votes: 0

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored. Votes: 0

You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers. Votes: 0

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known. Votes: 0

This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences. Votes: 0

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American. Votes: 0

I support the Second Amendment. I lived in Arkansas for 18 wonderful years. I represented upstate New York. I understand and respect the tradition of gun ownership. It goes back to the founding of our country. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do or do not. There is no try," says Yoda, the bewitching philosopher warrior created by George Lucas in Star Wars. Yoda is quoted at least as often as the founding fathers on this topic. Votes: 0

And since our country's founding, we've tried to keep government's heavy hand out of our personal lives, while ensuring that we do the most important thing, which is to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Votes: 0