(70 quotes found)
“A fine genius in his own country, is like a gold in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”
John Adams
“The founding fathers gave the House of Representatives one function when it comes to cleansing the office of the presidency and that is impeachment, ... Whether or not a resolution of censure is appropriate is something beyond our constitutional authority.”
Henry Hyde
“It was never intended by the Founding Fathers that the President of the United States should be a ventriloquist's dummy sitting on the lap of Congress.”
J. William Fulbright
“Our founding fathers referred to eminent domain as 'despotic power;' and that was when property was being seized for the government's use. There need to be some serious changes.”
Bruce Hillis
“His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city.”
Bill Bray
“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”
“Today, July 4th, 2012, I donated money to an Atheist (Religious Antagonist). I did this in honor of our Founding Fathers who did their very best to keep these self-righteous vipers from hell from using their mythological god to put the people of the United States in bondage from which they had risked their lives to escape from.”
Bobby W. Miller
“Understanding the danger of combining religion and politics, our founding fathers wisely created a political system based on individual merit and religious inclusiveness,”
Abraham Foxman
